Security Consulting

Telstra Security Consulting can assist your organisation to protect your information assets from security breaches and threats by choosing the appropriate strategy, architecture, solution and services for your environment.

Our capabilities are underpinned by ongoing research and development, one of the largest groups of security professionals in the country, and practical experience managing security for some of Australia’s largest mission-critical environments.

Typical engagement process

Telstra Security Consulting follows a proven engagement methodology to deliver security services which generally includes the following elements:

• A high level security audit and review of security posture
• A vulnerability assessment, to gain an understanding of a your organisation’s security profile to internal or external threats
• Report generation that outlines the methodology used for the engagement, identifies issues and strategies, evaluates risk levels, recommends mitigation strategies, and a priority of applying mitigation strategies framework and solutions
• Presentation of findings and recommendations to your organisation

Identify and manage risk
Reduce business risk, with advisers that understand and address security threats posed to your brand, business relationships and shareholder value. Consultation can help responsibly balance your risk profile and business needs, with your security spend. Help ensure your security complies with industry regulations and certification levels.

A complete solution
See the full picture, with consultation on authentication, firewall, anti-virus, content filtering and access control. Telstra can advise on security architecture, policy development, governance, security auditing and incident recovery. Fully managed services including Firewall, Intrusion Protection and VPN, can be simply and quickly adopted.
A completely vendor-neutral approach ensures our security product recommendations are never compromised. Maximise your options, with access to Telstra’s wide range of technology from leading providers. Only an end-to-end network and security provider like Telstra has the perspective to advise on, integrate and monitor an entire data path.

Experience the Telstra difference
With a substantial number of dedicated specialists Telstra offers one of Australia’s largest security services groups, with experience across multiple industries. We have the expertise, technologies and facilities to help you comprehensively manage ICT risk at every level of your business:

• Security solutions are embedded in every layer of Telstra’s networks. We can extend that capability into your networks
• The Telstra Security Operations Centre (TSOC), a dedicated T4 certified facility, monitors threats around the clock. The knowledge we gain is applied to your security environment
• We are specialists in security requirements at times of change – be that of a company acquisition, a new innovation, or a transformation project
• We have the depth of people and knowledge to design and implement a complete security architecture, disaster recovery and business continuity plan, as well as test those plans
• Telstra can also conduct security compliance audits against a range of recognised standards, or internal policies

Telstra specialises in complete security consulting solutions spanning implementation, management, auditing and incident response. We offer high-value security services including:

Vulnerability Assessment -. We can provide you with specialist assistance to identify, analyse and evaluate your information and ICT security vulnerabilities, as well as determine and prioritise countermeasures to correct these vulnerabilities.

Security Framework and Strategy – facilitates your organisation’s ability to meet the increasingly complex security challenges facing the distributed enterprise. Telstra offers experience gained across diverse real-life environments to help optimise ICT and security investments in particular, to align investments with business strategies, and to better deliver value and effectively manage risk.

Security Architecture - focuses on developing a strong, policy-driven security architecture that integrates with the overall enterprise architecture. Telstra aims to create a framework of clearly articulated security principles capable of being enforced through defined security domains and controls, and implemented through set standards, guidelines and procedures.

Security Compliance - providing specialist assistance in establishing, maintaining and implementing programs to assist you in compliance with internal and external security policies and standards.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - assisting you in proactively preparing and responding to business interruption.

Risk Management - providing specialist assistance to identify, analyse and evaluate ICT security threats and their potential impact.