Every organisation today needs some ability for employees and owners to work at home, or on the move. The drivers for remote working are increasing and include:

• Business Continuity Plans

• Attracting and retaining key staff or “Work / Life balance”

• Maximising employee productivity

• The UK’s increasingly expensive and ineffective travel infrastructure

• Keeping control of your business 24 x 7

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Working remotely requires access to the same information and systems as when in the office. With the growth of wireless and public networks, and home broadband services, this is increasingly possible. Clearstream offers a range of solution to meet your budget, and your requirements for security and availability.
 

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When employees are granted access to systems remotely, there are inherently greater risks. The environment is outside of your control, times of day are often outside of your IT staff’s hours, and there is generally no supervision by managers of colleagues of what an employee is doing. For all these reasons security is more important than ever, and Clearstream offers advice and practical solutions to manage these issues.
 
The key areas to consider are:

• Remote Connectivity - How will your employees connect, across private network links or via the Internet? Clearstream offers either solution for your organisation and for your employees. 3G mobile solutions, home broadband and wireless are all available offering security to keep business and personal uses separate.

• Authentication and Access Control – When someone connects remotely to your network, do you know who they are and can you grant access accordingly – system by system. Clearstream offers a range of solutions for all budgets to authenticate users.

• Anti-Virus – When a remote user and device connects to your network you need to be sure it does not pose risks of virus infection elsewhere into your networks. Clearstream offers a range of solutions to keep your employee devices clean, and manage potential attacks if they occur.

• Data Security – If a remote workers laptop or PC is stolen or compromised, is your data still safe? Clearstream offers solutions to both backup up remote data in a secure location, and also encrypt data on remote PC’s so that only authorised users have access, even if the PC is lost or stolen.

• Server Hosting – Few office building have the right environment for hosting servers. Environmental controls? Fire suppression? Uninterruptable Power? Physical Security? Carrier grade network connectivity? Continuity of IT services is vital for business, but if a majority of your employees are mobile, then hosting your servers “in the cloud” becomes even more attractive, as the increased network availability of a Data Centre location supports remote workers with better performance than office located servers. Clearstream offers a choice of hosting locations for your servers, to match
  

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Get in touch to discuss how we can help you implement remote working, securely, and cost effectively.