Our consultants

Allow our consultants to show you the Savoir-faire Linux way. Whether this be for a project feasibility study, a Linux conversion strategy, or an overall economic impact study, Savoir-faire Linux is here to give you a hand. 

A team of experts

The driving force behind Savoir-faire Linux is the expertise and professionalism of its consultants, each of whom can lay claim to a list of impressive achievements in a variety of sectors. We pride ourselves on our ability to fully understand our client's needs and the specific nature of their environments. We speak their language so to speak, while remaining focused on cost-effectiveness and system performance.

A combination of skills unique in Canada

With its team of consultants and its knowledge network, Savoir-faire Linux provides outstanding skills related to Linux technology.  

Our consultants can contribute at various phases:

• The feasibility and impact study.
• Project management. Performance analysis.
• Network and system architecture. System and network security.
• Development and implementation of applications for Linux platforms.
• Coaching and training your IT teams to work with Linux.
• Installation, implementation and integration of Linux servers in MacOS X®, Microsoft®, Novell® or Unix® environments, secure Web servers (Apache) or electronic messaging.
• Integration of SGBDR (Oracle®) under Linux.
• Design and architecture of Linux servers. Configuration of Linux routers.
• Deployment of file and printing servers with Samba for Linux, MacOS® or MS-Windows® client PCs.
• VPN solutions.
• X terminals.
• Creation of an intranet or extranet.
• Administration of a LAN or WAN.
• Administration and maintenance of Linux or Unix® systems.
• Installation of firewalls, DNS and Proxy servers.

Attacks on your system are stressful moments for an organization and its technical team. You must know how to diagnose the problem immediately to minimize damage as much as possible.

Savoir-faire Linux is ready to intervene in order to help you isolate an attack, protect your data and resources, and to ensure a complete restoration of your information system in a short amount of time. Whether it's a Denial of Service attack, a system break-in, a virus, or a logic bomb, our team of experts will be ready to provide a quick and efficient tactial response based on our structured, well-established methodology.

Savoir-faire Linux also commits to proposing a plan of action to correct the weaknesses of your information system and to prevent other attacks.

The constant evolution of your information system, the integration of new technologies, and the growing interconnectedness of your resources, taken together, conspire to make the risks of a breach of your information system particularly serious.

Savoir-faire Linux's security audit will help your company identify threats and vulnerabilities in order to establish a map of the risks to your organization, and to suggest adapted solutions such as the modification of your security policies, a better configuration of your security components (hardware, software), or the development of new protection mechanisms.

Thanks to the field experience of our security team, Savoir-faire Linux has over the years built a strong expertise in security auditing. Adapted for each client and each environment, our method consists of three major phases:

• a risk assessment ;
• the development of a list of recomendations, and ;
• the proposal of a plan of action.

The benefits to your organization are numerous:

• improved risk management and a significant decrease in costs ;
• the development of a coherent and reliable security strategy ;
• the coordination of your collaborators' efforts towards the protection of your system.