Network security involves many different technologies to be effective.  The first piece of the puzzle is the use of a tightly controlled firewall.  A firewall sits between your office computers and the internet.   It protects the resources of your company from hackers and malicious programs out on the internet. 

Without a well configured firewall your internal network is completely exposed to the outside world.  Bank account information, passwords, credit card numbers, documents and photos that you don't want to share with the world. They are all available to anyone with bad intentions and basic computer skills. Hackers can get in, take what they want, and even leave open a "back door" so they can turn your computer into a "zombie" and use it to attack other computers.

Every minute that your computer is connected to the Internet, either through a dial-up (modem) connection or through a broadband (DSL or cable) service, it is at risk.

The people who want to break into your computer don't care who you are or where you live. They may be amateurs using malicious code they find on the Internet to wreak havoc, or they may be computer criminals with cutting edge technology to search for unprotected computers anywhere in the world and exploit their vulnerabilities. An attack can come at any hour of the day or night.

When your computer is connected to the Internet, it receives traffic from a wide range of sources, most of it harmless. All of this traffic is handled invisibly by your computer, which is listening to a large number of "ports." A port is a specific connection point through which applications on your computer connect to the Internet. And a hacker only needs one open port through which to mount an attack.

Your computer is just one machine among the millions connected to the Internet at any given moment. And a moment is all it takes for a hacker to get in.

At Computer Solutions we have highly trained staff employed to install and configure your firewall and to then monitor network traffic to ensure your network is safe and secure.

Antivirus software comes installed on most new PCs, and most people think that it protects them completely from Internet threats. But virus protection is only as good as the latest virus definitions, which are created in response to the latest viruses. If your antivirus definitions are even one day out of date you are wide open and unprotected against the most recent viruses. 

Network security also includes antivirus and antispyware solutions, spam filtering, and backup and recovery solutions.

We have a network security package that is right for your company.  For more information on firewalls and every other aspect of a total security solution, please contact us.