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New Company on the Move Article - Business Commerce:
2XMG Expands Service Territory to Fauquier and Culpeper Counties
2XMG, a veteran owned business has now opened a Warrenton, Virginia office and is providing expanded computer and network services to Fauquier and Culpeper Counties. Previously, most of their marketing and sales efforts were directed towards the Northern Virginia, District of Columbia and Fredericksburg areas. The two owners of the firm are local - born and raised in Culpeper and Fauquier Counties. The notion was to get back to their roots and devote their newly directed energy along the Route 29 corridor - from Manassas to Warrenton to Culpeper and stops in between. While not giving up any of their existing customer base, they have strategically located the new office exactly in the middle of the new marketing directive to better serve the two communities. It is their intent to open a Culpeper office in the near future and continue to expand towards Charlottesville. Their focus group is primarily small to medium size firms as well as residential planned communities to include home-based businesses.
Another - 2XMG Solution !
Recently a new customer asked us to do a systems analysis on their computer/network infrastructure for a variety of vulnerabilities.
A few of our findings:
- Our customer had many offices throughout the State of Virginia. Each of their offices was connected to their main office via the Internet. The network that connected the offices to the main office was not secure.
- Several of the offices had wireless networks. None of the wireless networks were encrypted leaving their entire system very susceptible to hackers.
- They were concerned that if a catastrophic event were to render their main office inaccessible they needed to have a backup plan with a remote backup office.
- Their main disk drive that housed their data was nearly full; this in itself could have caused all of their data to potentially become corrupted.
- Their servers were placed in a location that anyone could have physical access to them. No forms of security.
A few 2XMG solutions:
- We created Virtual Private Networks (VPN) from each of the branch office sites to the main office: then joined each of the workstation to the company domain.
- We wired those offices that were feasible and encrypted and secured the wireless offices.
- We created a remote redundant site to be used in case of a catastrophic event and placed features in the office that would switch from the main office to the remote office automatically in case of an emergency.
- We increased the size of their data drive and worked with their specialty software vendor to archive and compress the older data. We setup a remote backup strategy to automate their backups and get the backups off-site.
- We secured their servers into a location that had a lock and key.
In closing, our customer's system and the stored data were made more secure and a Disaster Recovery Plan was implemented in place. Their data is now routinely backed up automatically and kept off-site; we monitor each of the firewalls for hackers or spam and any other undesirables, and much more for them.
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540.428.3555 (Warrenton)