DynaSis Unveils Zero-Impact Network Assessment Service

DynaSis, a provider of outsourcing solutions, managed services, application hosting and IT infrastructure outsourcing solutions for small to midsize businesses (SMBs), announced its new Zero-Impact Network Assessment Service.

Network assessments, which map a network’s connections, equipment, and scour the system for signs of trouble, are vital to resolving network congestion, identifying policy violations and pinpointing weaknesses in advance of an outage.

The Zero-Impact Network Assessment solution performs secure, comprehensive detection and mapping from a single point on a network. After completion, DynaSis analyzes the assessment results and develops a comprehensive report identifying network issues and weak spots, with recommendations for necessary upgrades and, if requested, suggestions for improvements or expansions.

“Network Assessments are an essential step in resolving congestion, detecting violations such as rogue access points and identifying problems with configuration, security and other weaknesses,” said Ried Thiel, director of CIO services for DynaSis. “Yet, many companies—especially SMBs—either don’t understand the importance of Network Assessments or are hesitant to do them because of the days of disruption some methods cause in the past. Our automated solution runs via a DynaSis laptop connection to the network, and all operations take place in the background with no network degradation. Users don’t even know the assessment is being conducted.”

The report that DyanSis compiles include a summary of the overall risk score, with easy-to-follow charts identifying problem areas and conflicts, pressure-point issues that warrant investigation, inventory of network devices, including rogue devices operation without the company’s knowledge, network access weaknesses such as outdated permissions or insecure passwords, and inventory of installed applications, servers, and other software and hardware with recommendations for best-practices configuration and management.

“Over time, as network configurations change, or users and devices are added or deleted, problems slip into the network undetected,” says Thiel. “Many companies unwittingly have network issues that create persistent network degradation or even expose business assets to assault. A Network Assessment is the first step in correcting these and other problems.”

Other services offered by DynaSis include data backup and disaster recovery, desktop management, helpdesk/onsite support, HD videoconferencing with Vu telepresence, infrastructure as a service, infrastructure management, managed security and on-premise IT solutions.

Network assessment software can collect valuable data about assets, end-user activity and network configurations to pinpoint security and productivity issues quickly and thoroughly. The MSPAlliance, in collaboration with Mark Winter, VP of sales at RapidFire Tools, is sponsoring a webinar on the importance of network assessment services for MSPs.

Registration is free and the webinar will be held on Thursday, May 24 at 2 p.m. ET.