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We support a "shared services" model where the user bears an accurate apportionment of the environmental and operational costs of ICT. Our solution will give the IT Director an accurate and defendable view of the usage as well as a firmer grasp on the operating efficiencies of an organisation's current systems.

From a Green and Sustainable ICT perspective the metrics can be distilled into two core issues: - power and resources. By using our solution an organisation will be able to save on hard costs - equipment, software licenses, maintenance, electricity, and rack space and on the labour costs of ICT technical support. At the strategic level we can work with you to measure key sustainability activities using industry accepted accounting protocols. We can help you to report ongoing performance to ensure transparency with key stakeholders and compliance with policy directives. By establishing an integrated, consistent source of quality information, you can bind initiatives to a common carbon management and sustainability framework that allows consistency across all lines of business - from the data centre to the water treatment facility.

At the tactical level organisations can follow the Federal Government's direction that its agencies implement the Green ICT Quick Wins program. Some examples of improving desktop energy efficiency are power management solutions, printer rationalisation and desktop virtualisation.

For example, consider an organisation with an electricity tariff of 15 cents per kilowatt hour. If it had 600 PCs it would be paying about $75,000 annually just to power its desk top computers. Using our PC Power Management solutions to program its PCs to control their power use it could make annual savings of about $34,000 and reduce the amount of CO2 released into the environment by about 230,000 kg. Our solutions are able to achieve a payback period of less than 12 months. Our tools also have the effect of extending the operational life of PC's by more than a year.

Our solutions can be tailored to reflect the engagement model an organisation wants to adopt e.g. centralised or decentralised, hosted, behavioural and so forth. The outputs measured and the extent of measurement can also be tailored to a user's requirements. These solutions can be rolled out very quickly.

Advent 7 is an SME Sustainable ICT and forensic/secure Network, Computer, Telephony company. It is a privately owned company, which was established in NSW in 2008. Our business includes the marketing and selling of Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) and Military Off-the-Shelf (MOTS) secure and forensic software & hardware, and the provision of related sustainability software/hardware integration, system engineering and analytical services.

The company's award winning leadership team has extensive NCT experience covering complex and secure solution development and delivery, project management, procurement, partner engagement, web and application development throughout Asia Pacific.

Advent7’s team has policies/procedures/protocols and experience in Incident Response, triage, prioritisation, management and escalation. Advent7’s team deal with incidents on a daily basis in a variety of environments.

Advent7 has a documented methodology and specialist team experience in Forensic Collection and Analysis. The team has performed Forensic Collection and Analysis for Public Authorities and Private Firms in a variety of industry sectors.

Advent7 has experienced teams members who specialise in assessing the vulnerabilities of networks, sites, systems and applications at all levels.

Advent7’s team members have experience in application and infrastructure penetration testing and performed penetration test against a variety of sites and systems including banks, high security public authorities and defence sites.

Advent7’s has proven procedures and protocols for conducting IT Threat and Risk Assessment against multitude of scenarios and environments both Electronic (e.g. Denial of Service, Brute Force attacks, Spoofing and Piggybacking etc) and Physical (Illegal site access, physical tapping and disconnection)

Advent7 has proven procedures and protocols for conducting Business Threat and Risk Assessment against multitude of scenarios and environments. (e.g. Value Transactions, Identity Protection and Preservation, Privacy etc)

Advent7 team has experience in developing and implementing Security Risk Management Plans to address a variety of issues which arise from Threat and Risk assessments. Plans are often tailored to address specific threats or adapted to match the likelihood of a range of threats.

Advent7 team is experience in Compliance Testing and Assessment in a variety of areas and standards (including ISMS. They have often been used to ensure

Advent7’s team includes several members who have developed or have developed in consultation Security Policies and Strategies. Clients for whom these services have been provided include Public Authorities and Utilities and Banks and other Financial Institutions.

Advent7’s experienced System Engineers are well versed in manual and automatic implementation of Patch Management Strategy’s which ensure and enforce the correct order systems patches and the exclusion or quarantining of non-compliant systems.

Advent7’s team includes many system developers and designers who capable and experienced in code review in particular in the area of Threat Modeling

Every member of Advent7 experienced team performs research on an ongoing basis for both our clients and our internal knowledge base. The results of all research undergo internal review to ensure veracity.

Advent7’s Enterprise Architects have designed End – to –End Infrastructure and Solutions Architecture for many clients to both replace and augment existing architectures. Such clients include major banks and financial institutions, public authorities and utilities.

Advent7’s developers have designed, developed and implement Security System Components using a variety of technologies including .NET, J2EE, CICS, assembler and microcode.

Advent7’s teams of Architects is capable of performing Architecture Security Assessment and providing a statement of advice and recommendations based on their assessment. This service is something these architects perform regulars for a variety of clients including major banks and public utilities.

Advent7’s team members are regularly engages to perform Product Requirement Analysis for many of our clients. They are experience in working with the business to design a statement of requirements which both defines the requirements and ranks their importance. They are also experienced in sourcing and assessing products which meet the requirements.

Advent7’s team has often been engaged to manage and implement major system migrations. They are experience the developing phased Implementation/Migration plans which focus on eliminating outages to mission critical systems and minimizing risk and disruption to the business. Fallback and contingency planning forms a major part of these plans. Implementation/Migration Planning and implementation has formed a major part of the Advent7’s business services. Once again clients have included major banks, financial institutions and public authorities.

Advent7’s team has many years experience in the development of Security Systems and Hosting Environments. Clients include major banks, finance institutions and a major computer vendor.

Advent7’s team has many years experience in the Testing, Monitoring, Tuning and Evaluation of Security Systems. They have implemented ‘passive security’ systems designed to monitor and log (audit)all levels of systems security from authentication attempt to the access to information by authorised users and the time taken by the security routines. They have also designed and implemented rules engines to categorise and escalate key events and identify security bottlenecks and loopholes. Clients include major banks, finance institutions and public authorities.

We understand that our Clients often look beyond the traditional ‘billable-hour’ fee structure, in their procurement of forensic IT services in order to find genuine value-for-money fee proposals. Advent 7 understands that often the costs charged for these solutions are not necessarily equal to their value to a Client. This will be especially true for costs derived by totalling up billable hours spent on delivering an outcome for a Client.

We understand that for our Clients, the value of a forensic IT solution is not determined by the time taken to derive that solution but by the way in which the solution helps their business. As a result we strive to work with our clients to understand how the positive resolution of a matter will help their businesses and, where possible, enter into fee arrangements that aim to recognise the value of the solution and charge in proportion to this, rather than for the mechanics of the process.

Advent 7 is committed to exploring alternative, value-based billing with you and using such structures to develop better work practices and better solutions that will reward us for our efficiency in developing highly valuable solutions for our Clients.