Many small business and home owners are realizing that keeping attacks off of the PC is the best defense. Companies have begun to provide network routers that advertise security options including anti-virus, anti-spam and other protection. However, there are three main areas of risk inherent in current router-based solutions.

First, much of the security routers come with must be installed on the computers. Along with PC performance issues from running major security applications, problems involving conflicting packages can cause further performance degradation.

Second, there are many “layers” in networking, from the physical cables used to send information up to the high level applications such as email tools, and each layer needs to have specific protections to ensure robust security for home networks. Current router solutions don’t protect all the layers.

Third, many anti-virus programs only test documents based on the high level file type of attachments. If the type is “spoofed”, hiding the real file type, or the package doesn’t test internal files of an archive (such as a zip file), attacks can still get to the PC.

Protect the Complete Computer

For those reasons, many small business and home owners are moving to network security protection, using a small computing device to provide security for the entire network, and all its levels, from a single place. The use of modern Flash Memory technology and Linux operating systems custom designed for security have helped create devices providing enterprise-level security for small networks at an affordable price. The result is a single, integrated set of security components that protects a complete small network without coverage gaps or clashes between software.

That integration and specialized power often provides device developers the ability to do more complex tests, such as more critically checking full data content to protect against spoofing or archive issues, in order to fully protect PCs from modern attack methods.

For laptops, a similar USB device traps all incoming communications before it reaches the operating system. The result is the same as with a network device — the separation of security from the physical laptop.

They also increase PC performance by removing high resource demand security applications and putting them on an appliance dedicated to and optimized for security applications.

For home computer networks, parental control also becomes much easier. From a single computer, the control applications can be accessed and managed, and then the settings are active for all computers on the network without intruding upon a child’s computer.

All-in-One Solution

There’s no need to have multiple software packages and the integration difficulties that can cause. In addition, you don’t have to install and maintain the same software on all of your home computers. A single device provides complete enterprise-level protection for all computers.

Hassle Free

All you need to do is connect a small device between your modem and router and you’re done. There’s no configuration needed, the immediately begins to work. Updates are accessed automatically from the network without affecting computer performance.

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