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System management solutions aimed at securing and customizing an organization's environment.

Platform Management Solutions

Platform management solutions from CSS can provide your organization the ability to gather inventory information, monitor license usage, use remote tools, streamline patch management, and distribute software to servers and workstations within a network in a scalable and highly customizable fashion. CSS designs and implements system management solutions aimed at securing and customizing an organization’s environment.

CSS’ philosophy is that management of your environment and the meeting security requirements do not need to be separate, conflicting concepts, but should be integrated foundationally into an organization’s people, processes, and technology.  Another way to describe our philosophy is “in order to properly secure your environment, you must know your environment.”

We meet these challenges with four foundational pillars:

  1. Automation

    Enabling an organization to achieve a dynamic infrastructure state by implementing technologies to automate processes and respond to not only environmental risk, but business requirements.  By automating manual processes and enabling end-users, our clients can focus efforts toward other priorities.  The following technologies are integral to this:  System Center products (Configuration Manager, Operations Manager, Opalis, Virtual Machine Manager), Hyper-V, Citrix VDI.

  2. Scaling to grow and move with the business needs

    Enabling the IT organization to respond to the business needs quicker – be it delivering critical business apps to end users, scaling out infrastructure, or providing automated solutions to enable the business to self-provision services. The following technologies are integral to this: Configuration Manager, Operations Manager, Opalis, Virtual Machine Manager), Hyper-V, Citrix VDI, private cloud.

  3. Reducing internal and external threats and risks

    Organizations are at risk every day – from both internal and external users.  Threats emanate from external drive-by attacks, micro-targeted phishing, and corporate espionage entities.  CSS helps organizations enable a proactive response to threats and risks. The following technologies are integral to this: Threat Management Gateway, Forefront Endpoint Protection, Forefront for Exchange, Forefront Online Protection for Exchange, Forefront for SharePoint, Rights Management Services, and OS platform security hardening.

  4. Agility to respond to change

    By decoupling interdependencies in your environment, CSS allows organizations to be more efficient and rapid at implementing new technologies, applications and platforms, while minimizing the need for validation testing.  Organizations need to fully test planned changes to the environment while ensuring stability to the business.  By moving away from highly complex, point solutions that an organization may implement, changes can be introduced quicker due to a deeper understanding of the environment, and how the change will affect the environment. The following technologies are integral to this: System Center Configuration Manager, Citrix VDI, application virtualization

    System & Operation Management
    The CSS approach to system & operation management centers on a strong processes and comprehensive strategies to address risk, changing business requirements, and enabling a more dynamic environment, where changes are not met with resistance, but acceptance.  CSS reviews existing processes and procedures to develop a “gap analysis” to gain an understanding of strengths and weaknesses, and vulnerabilities resulting in a roadmap to secure your systems.

    Desktop Deployment & Management
    Turn to CSS to develop a common infrastructure for deploying workstations and managing the lifecycle of your network and its servers and clients.

    Application Virtualization
    The CSS approach to application virtualization is to develop solutions that integrate with your current application distribution methodologies, minimizing app deployment and maintenance overhead.

    Operating Systems Protection
    Prevent data and systems from being compromised by utilizing CSS’ SIM team to design and apply layers of trust to your operating system.