Consulting Service

Providing fully customizable, professional consulting services to design and deploy different levels of security to suit the requirements of different industries, document control systems, business processes, departments and personnel.

TFG consulting services take advantage of the TFG system's flexible design to significantly reduce the impact on of system implementation on business processes, and help you quickly and effectively deploy multiple levels of security controls. TFG's flexibility allows a high degree of customization, including:

• Establishing different levels protection and different operation requirements for different levels of management; e.g., only decrypting and not encrypting, allowing users to manually decrypt files, allowing disabling of protections, and allowing access to document compression controls.
  
• Deploying different protections for different applications used by different departments (or working groups), and customizable detail levels of log maintenance.
  
• Different encryption/decryption measures for specific systems or network folders. 
  
• Setting different languages, decryption backup settings, alert messages and print controls for different user practices.

Security Policy Consulting Procedure

1. Environment assessment stage
   Completed documents: implementation handbook beta version, project implementation schedule, environment assessment tables.
   Understand the requirements and aims of top level management, and draft security policy objectives and guidelines; e.g., shifting from lax to tight security, or from restrictive to more relaxed policies, etc. (Generally shifting from restrictive to relaxed policies recommended).
   Understand the application, network and hardware environment.
   
   
   
2. System design stage
   Completed documents: finalized implementation handbook.
   Recordkeeping volumes, bandwidth requirement evaluations, hardware deployment design.
   Administrators' definitions and categories: system admins, log admins, document control personnel.
   Define installation process and corresponding settings.
   Administration center backup design (optional backup system equipment purchase).
   
   
3. System deployment stage
   Administration center installation
   Deploy "blank" security policy TFG Agents to end user computers (hidden installation recommended).
   Observe online status and record TFG Agent operation status.
   Define security policies, groups and decryption administrators.
   Update "blank" security policies to "controlled" policies via TFG Agent.
   
   
4. System fine-tuning and maintenance phase
   Adjust security policies based on user input.
   Set up and customize administration reports (optional reporting system).
   Compile log volume statistics and fine-tuning.
   Backup administration center settings files and encrypt decryption keys.
   
   
5. Training phase
   TFG system operation training.
   TFG system administration training.
   Security control parameter file adjustment training (optional).
   
   
6. Observation, tracking and improvement (Continuous Management) phase

Secward Consultants Provided:

1. Certified TotalFileGuard Security Instructor
2. Certified TotalFileGuard Security Engineer

Estimated time required: 5 to 10 working days, depending on size and complexity of operating procedures.