Electrical Controls and Services Company

A controls system integrator and electrical contracting company specializing in PLC and SCADA systems designs, installs complete control systems and provide high quality documentation and support internationally.

Their Intellectual Property consists of their PLC program code, documentation, diagrams, drawings and plans. This information was held on standalone notebook computers that accompanied electricians and programmers on their international site visits. The vulnerability and main concern was that if a notebook was lost, stolen or damaged, valuable data may be lost that may not be recoverable.

Trump Systems worked with the owner of the company to develop a series of goals designed to make the company more effective and protect their IP. They needed a central repository for their IP that would facilitate version control, collaboration and secure remote access. They needed to register a domain and implement an email system that could be used on an individual basis both locally and remotely. Finally, there was a need to be able to backup all types of data both on site and remotely.

Trump Systems staff analyzed the requirements and proposed a complete turnkey solution based on an HP server running Microsoft Small Business Server. An email domain was registered and a Public Key Infrastructure was implemented. Microsoft Exchange was deployed for email and Microsoft SharePoint was configured as the central repository for critical data and version control for program code.

A Network Attached Storage device along with Symantec Backup Exec provide for local backups and remote, online backups were also configured. Managed IT Services were configured to provide remote management, updates, alerts and management reports.