SkyAuction.com is an Internet auction site developed to liquidate excess travel capacity

• Initial infrastructure was undersized
  
  
• Applications’ software architecture were not initially designed well for rapid scalability
  
  
• Rapid growth in user base and page views threatened to overwhelm the existing infrastructure
  
  
• The scalability of the technology was limiting the overall business potential
  

While understanding the critical operational nature of the current infrastructure to meet the existing and growing demand of SkyAuction, Ephibian performed a non-disruptive engagement to:

• analyze the current business growth and future requirements
  
  
• perform stress testing on the existing servers and network infrastructure to determine peak capacity
  
  
• outlined a future software architecture capable of growth to meet the increased demand

The resulting system provided a manageable, high degree of security with a clear security policy. The system security tools and procedures were documented. The overall system automatically notified system and security administrators when attempted breaches were detected.

• Determined capacity of the existing system and architecture
  

• Developed a new strategy to handle increased traffic
  

• Presented a realistic, implementable and scalable server and network architecture to grow with SkyAuction’s needs.Recommendations for a network intrusion detection system