IT Management

Our technology consulting professionals have developed IT assessment and strategic planning tools that allow us to help clients develop a clear picture of where they are now and where they want to be in the future. Having an IT roadmap is important to achieving the efficiencies, effectiveness, and services that organizations expect as a return on their IT investments.
As a leader among management and technology consultants, our specialists at StarMarc bring a “business approach” to projects, so they help you support your strategic plans with suggested IT governance policies, administrative structures, and mechanisms to manage your technology investment and ensure accountability. Independent technology consulting representation is best.
Due to their independence, our technology consulting team can be the partner you need to implement your plans. You can depend on team members to help you develop RFPs, analyze proposals, and get you the best IT solutions at reasonable prices. In other words, our experienced professionals help you filter through the noise and find the solutions that fit your unique situation.

Technology Advisory

At StarMarc, our seasoned professionals are skilled in providing risk-based IT functions that assist clients in strategically aligning, measuring and governing their IT systems so that they operate with greater effectiveness. Some of the technology advisory services that we provide include: a. Business systems effectiveness b. CIO advisory c. Data analytics and continuous monitoring d. System selection e. Technology security

Securing your data: managing risk

Concerned business leaders are asking us how to secure the IT systems and networks they are increasingly dependent upon. They want to keep their customers’ personal information safe. And they want to ensure the validity and integrity of the information they and their customers depend on. Our technology consulting team includes specialists in security assurance and privacy compliance (HIPAA, SAS70, PCI, and GLBA). They have developed industry-specific methodologies to help you assess your existing controls and locate areas of risk through comprehensive IT risk assessments. When risk potential is uncovered, they will also offer suggestions to correct the weaknesses.

Leveraging the web

Another group of specialists on our technology consulting team focuses on helping clients explore the potential of the World Wide Web and what it can mean to greater connectivity among its employees, business partners, and customers. Always the technology consulting team is looking for ways to better harness the power of technology for the organizations we serve. We can also provide with web based solutions for managing human resource, fixed assets from procurement to running depreciation and integrating with your accounting system.

IT Governance and Structure

Our technology consultants also help clients develop the necessary IT governance and administrative structure to ensure effective technology selection and implementation and develop mechanisms to manage the technology investment and ensure accountability. The support can go beyond planning. Our consultants are accustomed to helping clients through the technology selection and implementation process. When there are so many options and so many companies trying to sell their products, our technology consultants can help you filter through the noise. They can help you consider a multitude of factors. In fact they have developed hundreds of tools, tactics, and checklists to help you throughout the selection process.

Network and Communications Solutions

When they undertake your project, our communications and networking consultants will draw on their experience with hundreds of other projects for a range of clients from government and education to manufacturing. Samples of our experience include:

• Data network: LAN, WAN, Internet, WLAN
• Server & network storage solutions: servers, SAN, NAS, virtualization
• Data center: design and implementation
• Telecommunications: IP telephony, carrier, network, 9-1-1
• Cable infrastructure: UTP, fiber optics, inside/outside plant, coax
• Video: video distribution, video production, video-on-demand technology, video conferencing
• Surveillance design expertise: IP cameras, video surveillance design, management systems, door access controls
• Strategic communications & networking planning
• End-user technology: workstations, presentation solutions, conference room design
• Telecommunications audit

Our process will help you optimize the return on your dollar by prioritizing IT infrastructure upgrades/replacements while addressing increasing demands for bandwidth and connectivity. Our communications & networking consultants will begin by assessing your situation and helping you develop a comprehensive strategy to improve the connectivity in your organization. You will appreciate our reports and deliverables. They will be custom tailored to your organization and will serve as a valuable tool for you as you explain the proposed strategy to the other decision makers.

Ethical Hacking/Network Robustness testing

StarMarc professionals consist of Certified Ethical Hackers (CEH) and/or Certified Network Defense Architect (CNDA) who have specialized in how to look for the weaknesses and vulnerabilities in target systems and uses the same knowledge and tools as a hacker. An ethical hacker is usually employed by an organization who trusts him or her to attempt to penetrate networks and/or computer systems, using the same methods as a hacker, for the purpose of finding and fixing computer security vulnerabilities. It must however be noted that unauthorized hacking (i.e., gaining access to computer systems without prior authorization from the owner) is a crime in most countries, but penetration testing done by request of the owner of the targeted system(s) or network(s) is not. StarMarc therefore requires clients to sign consent/authorization forms before this service is provided.