
REMOTE ACCESS SERVICE ASSESSMENT
Optimising Your Remote Access Service
CDW knows that providing secured and flexible remote access to your workforce and trusted partners is pivotal to your organisation and productivity. CDW’s Professional Services Consultant’s will perform a review of your Remote Access Services (RAS) from the ground up, providing you with insights into topology, security stance, bottle-necks and potential risks.

Why Should You Assess Your RAS Infrastructure?
As solutions evolve and adapt to business demands, legacy configuration is often left behind which, over time, can result in degraded performance and a weakened security stance. In addition, reactionary changes necessitated by external factors such as Covid-19 can result in rapid changes being made in-terms of scale and delivery which could lead to unintentionally weakened security controls and posture.
CDW Remote Access Health Assessment
The CDW Remote Access Service is designed for organisations who want to baseline and benchmark their remote access services & who need assurance that their remote access service is robust, performant and is configured in accordance to industry good practice. The resulting report is targeted at your IT management team who are responsible for ensuring a high level of continuity and availability on the network. We perform
Discovery
Discovery of your remote access service including associated device configurations
Identify
Identification of risks with clear recommendations around configuration updates, support status, operational performance and identification of single point of failures.
Review
We conduct a review of your existing management or monitoring processes.
Requirements
Console Access
Read-only access to the device GUI, CLI and any other management consoles for lower level script-based discovery.
SNMP Access
Valid read-only SNMP access enabled.
Services To Review
A definition of in-scope remote access services to be reviewed - CDW can offer additional bespoke physical audit services if you are unsure of the makeup of your estate.
Monitoring software
Monitoring software is sometimes installed to capture utilisation and health statistics where existing services are not available.
Hardware Access
Physical access to hardware for physical health check purposes
The report includes hardware, firmware, agent software and associated vendor support status, network topology, device serial numbers, routing and redundancy / HA configuration, device, port and authentication methods and configuration as well as highlighting any concerns and providing remedial recommendations.
Why Choose CDW?
Remote Access Service Assessment Packages
1
Basic
Discovery of one (1x) in-scope remote access solution, discovering basic physical topology, scale and operational health.
*This package does not include any configurational deep-dive or policy analysis.
2
Essential
Discovery and creation of assessment of one or more in-scope firewall appliances or HA clusters, including physical (Layer-1/2) and logical (Layer-3) network diagrams for in-scope devices, management and monitoring of in-scope firewall platforms, deep-dive configuration review, and more.
3
Premium
Discovery, assessment and VIP review of in-scope firewall appliances or HA clusters, including physical (Layer-1/2) and logical (Layer-3), network enclosure diagrams for associated devices inc. environmental review, management and monitoring of in-scope firewall platforms, deep-dive configuration and review, and more.

Wireless Service Assessment

Network Assessments

Firewall Security Assessments

ServiceWorks
Request a Remote Access Service Assessment
Ready to maximise your remote access performance, stability and scalability? If you want to baseline and benchmark your remote access services and need assurance that your remote access service is robust, performant and is configured in accordance to industry good practice, then request a remote access service by completing the form