Network architecture
Understand how the different components of your infrastructure communicate and identify any points of attention.
AWSMTECH
Network Health Check
Identify weaknesses in your network before they affect your business's performance or security.
Network health
Your network works. But does it really work as it should?
Unstable connections, patchy Wi-Fi, ageing equipment, insufficient segmentation or configurations that have become hard to control… Over time, a network can accumulate weaknesses that remain invisible until the day they start affecting users or the security of the business.
The AWSMTECH Network Health Check assesses the overall condition of your network environment to identify points of attention and improvements worth considering.
- See
- Understand
- Prioritise
- Improve
Usage
Your network is your business's circulatory system
Almost all of your digital activities depend on it:
- Microsoft 365
- Teams
- Business applications
- Telephony
- Wi-Fi
- Cloud
- Printers
- Backups
- Remote access
When the network performs poorly, the impact shows up everywhere. Yet these issues are often handled separately: slow Wi-Fi here, a dropped connection there, a sluggish application elsewhere.
The Network Health Check lets you step back and examine the environment as a whole, rather than just treating the symptoms.
Scope
What is a Network Health Check?
Firewall
Review the overall configuration of the device that forms one of the main boundaries between your business and external networks.
Switches
Check the switching environment and its consistency with the organisation's current needs.
Wi-Fi
Analyse issues likely to affect wireless connectivity for your staff and devices.
Network segmentation
Review the separation between different types of users, devices or services where relevant.
Equipment
Identify ageing or obsolete components, or those requiring particular attention.
Documentation
Check that the environment is sufficiently known and documented to be maintained and evolved under good conditions.
A Network Health Check is a structured assessment of your network infrastructure and its overall condition. The goal is to gain a better understanding of the existing environment and identify the elements that need particular attention. Depending on the agreed scope, the analysis may cover:
Key message
A network can work… and still be fragile
A network doesn't need to be completely down to have a problem. It can keep running while carrying:
- Configurations that have become hard to control
- Ageing equipment
- Poorly identified dependencies
- Insufficient Wi-Fi coverage
- An architecture that has grown too complex
- A lack of segmentation
- Insufficiently documented elements
These situations don't necessarily mean an incident will occur. But they deserve to be identified so that decisions can be made before they become problematic.
Make decisions before weaknesses become problems.
Performance & security
Performance and security are closely linked
A good network must be available, performant and under control.
Historically, the network was mainly seen as a connectivity topic. Today, it is also an important component of your cybersecurity architecture.
How devices are configured, separated and administered directly affects the organisation's ability to control communications between its systems. That is why AWSMTECH examines the network from two complementary angles:
Operational performance
Does the network allow your staff and applications to work properly?
Risk control
Does the architecture help limit certain exposures and maintain an appropriate level of control?
Segmentation
Segmentation: avoiding the “wide-open” network
Not all of a company's devices need to communicate freely with each other. A user workstation, a printer, an IoT device, a server or a guest Wi-Fi network may have different uses and trust levels.
Appropriate segmentation helps structure these exchanges more effectively.
Allow what is necessary.
Restrict what isn't.
The Network Health Check can therefore identify situations where the architecture would benefit from better segmentation or structure.
Wi-Fi
Your Wi-Fi is part of your infrastructure
Business Wi-Fi should not be treated as a mere convenience.
For many SMEs, most staff now rely mainly on a wireless connection. Poorly sized or misconfigured Wi-Fi can therefore become a direct productivity problem.
The Network Health Check places Wi-Fi in a broader context:
- Access
- Network
- Infrastructure
- Applications
- Cloud
The goal isn't simply to have “signal”, but an environment suited to the organisation's real needs.
Method
How does our approach work?
- 01
Discover
Identify components and understand the existing architecture.
- 02
Analyse
Review the overall condition of the environment and the main points of vigilance.
- 03
Identify
Highlight anomalies, weaknesses or potential improvements.
- 04
Prioritise
Distinguish what requires immediate attention from what can be part of a future evolution.
- 05
Recommend
Turn technical findings into concrete, understandable recommendations.
- Discover
- Assess
- Prioritise
- Improve
Findings
A clear outcome, not just a technical report
A business leader doesn't need a list of VLANs, IP addresses or network settings without context. They need to understand:
- What is working properly?
- Where are the main points of attention?
- Which issues present a risk?
- What should be improved?
- Which actions are priorities?
Our findings are organised into three levels:
Maintain
Elements that work properly and require no particular action.
Improve
Elements for which optimisation is recommended.
Address as a priority
Points that could significantly affect availability, performance or security.
A clear read for an executive or administrative manager, far more meaningful than a report filled only with technical data.
Network vs cyber audit
Network health check or cybersecurity audit?
The two approaches are complementary.
Network Health Check
“Is our network infrastructure healthy, consistent and suited to our needs?”
The analysis focuses mainly on the quality and control of the network environment.
Cybersecurity audit
“Does our organisation have security measures suited to its risks?”
The scope is much broader: identities, endpoints, data, cloud, governance, vulnerabilities, backups, users, detection and other security controls.
The network is therefore part of your cyber posture, but not all of it.
Check vs monitoring
Network health check or monitoring?
Network Health Check
A structured assessment to identify the condition of the environment and potential improvements.
Network monitoring
Ongoing surveillance to track specific devices, services or technical indicators.
The first helps you understand and improve. The second helps you monitor and detect certain changes. Within AWSMTECH's Managed & Outsourced IT Services, these approaches naturally complement each other.
When?
When should you run a Network Health Check?
Your network has grown without a real plan
New devices and uses have been added over the years.
Your staff face recurring issues
Disconnections, slowdowns or Wi-Fi problems deserve a more global analysis.
You are moving or reorganising your offices
A good opportunity to rethink the infrastructure around new ways of working.
Your infrastructure is ageing
You want to know which equipment to keep and which should enter a renewal plan.
You are changing IT provider
The check provides better visibility of the environment being taken over.
You are strengthening your cybersecurity
Network architecture and segmentation are among the elements to consider in a defence-in-depth approach.
Modernisation
A step before modernising your infrastructure
Don't replace your network before understanding what really needs to change.
A Network Health Check helps distinguish several situations:
- What works and can be kept
- What needs better configuration
- What needs to evolve
- What should be replaced
Cyber journey
From network to cybersecurity
The Network Health Check can also reveal topics requiring a more in-depth cyber analysis.
Why AWSMTECH
Why AWSMTECH?
A global view
We see the network as a component of your overall IT environment, not as an isolated set of devices.
IT & cybersecurity combined
Performance and security are considered together.
Pragmatic recommendations
The goal is to prioritise useful improvements, not to systematically replace what exists.
A business-oriented view
Technical findings are translated into impacts and priorities management can understand.
From diagnosis to improvement
AWSMTECH can integrate the selected recommendations into a broader maintenance or managed IT services approach.
A local partner
An approach designed for SMEs and organisations in Geneva and French-speaking Switzerland.
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions
It is an assessment of the network environment designed to provide better visibility of its condition, identify potential weaknesses and determine relevant improvements.
Depending on the defined scope, the analysis can cover the main components of the network infrastructure, including firewalls, switches, Wi-Fi access points and other relevant devices.
No. A Network Health Check mainly assesses the condition and consistency of the infrastructure. A penetration test seeks to challenge the security of a scope by simulating a controlled attack.
Not entirely. The network is an important component of IT security, but a cyber audit generally covers a much broader scope.
Not necessarily. The goal is precisely to identify what can be kept, what deserves optimisation and what might need replacing.
Network Health Check
Is your network ready for the years ahead?
A network can work today while accumulating the constraints that will cause tomorrow's problems. Take stock of your infrastructure before its limits become your business's limits. AWSMTECH helps you understand the condition of your network, identify priorities and build a suitable improvement plan.
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