A One Step assessment is a scoped review of one part of your network, done against your actual configuration and documents, that ends in a written report you keep. There is no obligation to do the follow-on work with us, and the report is written so your own team can act on it.

Edge and routing review

How your network meets the Internet. We read the BGP configuration on every edge router and check what you accept from each upstream and peer, what you announce, and whether the filters still match the prefixes you hold. We check that the upstream communities you rely on for preference, prepending and blackholing match the provider’s current guide, and whether a single circuit, building entry or carrier carries more of your traffic than you think. You get a list of findings in order of risk, the exact filter and policy changes to make, and a diagram of the edge as it actually is.

Dependency review: time, DNS and out-of-band access

The services everything else depends on and nobody looks at until they fail. How many time sources your routers use and whether they can outvote a wrong one. Whether your two resolvers share a switch, a power feed or an upstream. Whether the console server, modem or cellular path you would use in an outage has been logged into this year, and by whom. You get a failure-domain map of these services and a short list of changes, most of them cheap.

Change control review

How configuration changes happen today: who can make them, where they are reviewed, what record exists afterward, and whether you could show an auditor what a device looked like before and after a given change. We compare the running configuration against whatever you hold as the intended one and report the differences. You get a description of the current process as it really operates, the gaps between it and what your auditors or customers ask for, and a path to closing them that your team can follow without retraining everyone.

What it asks of you

Read-only access to the devices and documents in scope, a few hours of your engineers’ time for questions, and a date for the report. Talk with us about which review fits.