Turnkey Project Implementation
Ready to act, but short on the skills and resources to successfully implement? This is where IT4A can really help. Our team of consulting and project engineers are used to working across a variety of operational environments.
We will review your designs and optimise them for deployment. We can use your hardware or, alternatively, provide a complete solution where we exercise our ‘Solution Partner’ relationship with leading vendors to get you a great deal.
Switches, routers, firewalls, gateways and hosts for operational technology, available to order through the IT4A Shop.
Turnkey project implementation, from early engagement and design through build, factory and site testing to handover.
Consulting, design and training from engineers with 25 years of OT network design, implementation and support experience.
IT4A supplies the hardware that operational technology systems depend on. As a Solutions Partner of the leading brands, we can source the right products for your design and get you a great deal, whether you are replacing a single device or equipping a new site.
Browse the range and order online through the IT4A Shop, or speak to our engineers if you need help selecting products for an OT network.
When you are ready to act but short on the skills or resources to implement, IT4A delivers the whole project. We review and optimise your designs for deployment, use your hardware or supply a complete solution, and follow a robust, tested process from early engagement to handover. Here is how we work.
IT4A bring the lessons learned from 25 years of OT network design, implementation and support to bear on every project. Our full-time team of network, infrastructure and cyber engineers and service desk analysts design for an easy life, high availability and seamless recovery.
Good Outcomes result from a robust and tested process.
IT4A begins by understanding your local context, defining the project scope, and identifying challenges. We assess threats, risks, and organisational risk appetite to determine what success looks like.
We establish clear project deliverables, which may include:
Smaller projects may combine these into a single design document. Our designs address risks early and set expectations for budget, outcomes, and timeframes, while considering local resources and compliance obligations.
Achieving Secure by Design requires close cooperation between the Application Provider, IACS System Integrator, and IT4A. Using Zero Trust tools and private networks, we ensure seamless, secure collaboration.
For compliance frameworks like CE+ and CAF, we design systems that are sustainable, mature, and resilient to personnel changes.
Local expertise is essential for availability and security. We provide training to build knowledge, skills, and experience, ensuring your team is ready to take responsibility for the as-built system.
Modern infrastructure, comprising switches, routers, firewalls, gateways, and hosts, is designed to communicate constantly, sharing status updates and performance insights. However, the sheer volume and complexity of this data make it impossible for humans to manually monitor, interpret, and act on it in real time. This is where automation becomes essential.
ICMP/SNMP polling tools monitor the health of your infrastructure, alerting you when thresholds are exceeded or statuses change. Meanwhile, SYSLOG data, ingested into a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system, can detect security incidents as they happen. With proper configuration, SIEMs can even highlight anomalies through custom dashboards, offering real-time visibility.
Without automation, these systems simply provide a post-incident narrative, explaining how a breach occurred. But with automation, monitoring, detection, and response, you can stop threats before they escalate.
Advanced automation goes further by normalising and sanitising data, delivering correlated insights from multiple sources to provide a comprehensive view of your infrastructure’s health and security.
Testing should be outcome-based and functional.
Test in the build phase to evidence the design has been implemented into the hardware, and it functions and performs as expected. This is the time to verify that monitoring data is flowing and providing valuable insights into the condition and security status.
Test in factory to gain evidence the application delivers expected outcomes across a secure, locked down, infrastructure. And that monitoring is now collecting alerts from host PCs & Servers.
Test on site where the system is deployed across local resources (cable, power) and access all resources. And that monitoring is now collecting alerts from all devices.
Test methods and maintenance procedures. Are RAMS sufficient & impact statements accurate?
Test skills, are your local resources sufficiently competent to sustain the system.
Not every requirement is a full project. IT4A’s consulting and project engineers can review your existing designs, advise on risk and compliance, or train your team to take ownership of an as-built system.
Discovery, asset records, design documentation and lifecycle evidence, so you know exactly what has been installed, where and why.
Project governance, engineered change, standardised products and supported baselines keep your OT infrastructure consistent and manageable.
Documented delivery, supportable infrastructure and planned replacement routes mean the system you accept is one your team can sustain.
IT4Automation visited to perform a network survey and assisted with troubleshooting a network issue… I was very pleased with the service that IT4Automation provided and would certainly contact them again in the future if needed.
Stuart Jolley – S,C&I Engineer, Systems Lead
Great communication, reliable and your team… worked pretty much non stop start to finish. I think this upgrade has made a good improvement to the machine and will improve reliability.
George Voisey – Balfour Beatty Rail
