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Servers running for years with no monitoring, no tested backups, no firewall review.

A company with several client-facing services had no centralized monitoring, no tested backup plan and a firewall configuration that had not been reviewed since the original setup.

Problem

A company with several client-facing services had no centralized monitoring, no tested backup plan and a firewall configuration that had not been reviewed since the original setup years earlier. They discovered a partial outage from a client complaint.

Approach

Infrastructure audit, monitoring setup with alerting, automated backup configuration with weekly recovery tests, and a firewall rule review and hardening pass. We established a recovery plan before touching anything and tested it before signing off.

Outcomes

Monitoring live: first alert fired within 48 hours, before any client noticed Weekly automated backup tests with documented recovery runbook Firewall rule count reduced by 40% — attack surface materially smaller