Business Telecoms & IT in Burgess Hill

Electrical noise and static are the practical considerations rather than anything exotic — cabling routes matter more in an assembly environment than in an office, and network runs should be kept away from machinery where the layout allows. Getting it right at install avoids intermittent faults that nobody can diagnose afterwards.

Segmentation between production and office networks, a monitored firewall, and access controlled and reviewed rather than shared. That covers most of what the questionnaires actually ask and is configuration rather than significant expense at your scale. Buying enterprise tooling nobody has time to administer is the disproportionate version.

One network, deliberately segmented — which is not the same as two networks. Production equipment, visitors and the finance systems should not share a flat network, and demonstrating that they do not is increasingly what customer security questionnaires ask for. In most cases it is configuration on hardware you already own rather than new equipment, which surprises people.