Sana M&E are a London based electrical contractor and specialise in large electrical projects for commercial, industrial, and domestic customers. Established for over a decade Sana M&E are part of a group of companies under the Sana Group umbrella which have expertise in modular buildings, property development, construction, and more.

Sana Mechanical and Electrical Limited are their largest company with an office in Walthamstow, London. Ten members of staff manage the day-to-day operations and rely on several IT systems.

THE CHALLENGE.

Sana’s office-based team had been gradually expanding due to successful company growth throughout 2021 and when IT challenges started to present themselves in early 2022 a fresh approach to managing their IT infrastructure was needed.

Sana had adopted an older IMAP email platform and DropBox file storage which had served them well for many years, but cracks were starting to show and with security threats and vulnerabilities emerging in their industry a more secure email and data storage solution that could facilitate easier email access and file sharing was required.

A support and disaster recovery framework was also essential to ensure that Sana’s team were supported and trained to deal with operational IT issues and threats to the business. A strategic partnership with an IT provider was Sana’s requirement to form a roadmap and vision for how they would encourage future success and growth aided by technology.

THE SOLUTION.

We began by conducting our comprehensive audit. This audit covered Sana’s IT systems, core infrastructure, security, devices, and data to discover what they operated as an essential step to highlight areas which needed improvement, and the areas of highest risk.

Our audit findings concluded that a more secure complete solution was needed for their email and data storage as previous systems had siloed these functions into separate weaker systems which would not natively connect. We were also able to analyse their expenditure and it was clear that savings could be made by combining systems together under the umbrella of Microsoft 365.

Our main priority once the audit was complete was to migrate Sana’s 20 email accounts to Microsoft 365, and we did so swiftly over a weekend without disrupting business operations. Secondly, Microsoft OneDrive for Business was rolled out to staff devices which captured all local documents and securely synchronised them to the Cloud.

Sana’s company data share was also migrated over to OneDrive and via sharing functions the file permissions were applied to distribute access to folders and data to each member of staff.

An external and internal security review was carried out and results highlighted several vulnerabilities and were remediated immediately. Our security team confidently established a secure baseline in which Sana can move forward with the peace of mind that their core infrastructure, devices, and data are secure.

Our on-going security monitoring and vulnerability scanning will maintain Sana’s security posture into the future and protect their vital systems against emerging threats.