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Tackling the challenges of new technologies, security, and standards across your network

10/3/2019

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    In today's competitive, always-on landscape, businesses need to be one step ahead of their competitors to thrive and retain their customers. Your business functions on technology and it should be reliable and efficient.

In light of October being National Security Awareness Month, your first objective should be to ensure that your network and interconnected devices are secure against the proliferation of ransomware and malware knocking at your firewall's front door.
  • Is your firewall's firmware/software up-to-date?
  • Are you using all of the features included?
    • DNS protection to block botnets and malicious websites.
    • Antivirus scanning to prevent malware entering your network in the first place.
    • Blacklisting web applications that reduce employee productivity (Facebook, Instagram, Game Sites, and websites that go against company policy)
    • Reporting that gives insight into the data traversing your network
    • Alerting that proactively removes a device from the network.

    Features like these and more are commonplace with what are being called Next Generation Firewalls.

Speaking of Next Generation, the same applies to Antivirus. Several new security software companies have brought new software to market which takes a new approach to Antivirus software. Gone are the days of downloading updates and definitions; now heuristics and intrusion detection and prevention are here.

We're testing these Next Generation products and have found that some are capable of stopping malware in it's tracks and restoring any data and settings that were modified back to their original state—usually in the blink of an eye.

Contact us today to learn more! We'd be happy to have a conversation over the phone, email, or coffee!

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