Enterprise Security for Home Networks
Computers connected to the Internet are always at risk from malicious attacks for multiple purposes. The growth of personal computing has brought the risks directly into homes. In some ways, the risks to families are even greater than for businesses.
Finally, as PC’s are replaced in the home, the older ones are often kept and used by family members, creating home networks. Keeping security working and synchronized on multiple computers adds to both complexity and costs. In addition, many parents want security packages that come with parental controls, to help make Internet surfing safe for their children. In households with networks of PCs with local security software, that means a lot of work on multiple computers.
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.
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Frequent Attacks
Some hackers want to put programs on your computer to send spam, help them break into other computers and perform attacks on other computers by hijacking your computer. Other people want to steal information for financial gain. While thieves look to both businesses and homes for that information, families are also targets for identity theft. In addition, computer attacks, spam emails and even Web sites are set up to attract youth in order to increase their spending, gain parental financial information and even entice children into dangerous actions. While simple anti-spam, anti-virus and home firewall solutions provide some protections, computer operating systems are complex and there are many ways that hackers can use to gain access to your home network. Without getting very technical, 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.Protecting Individual PCs
Many home computer users try to protect computers by putting security software on the local computers. That has a number of challenges. First, the software can be complex to install and maintain, so that many people will get confused by security management and fail to keep it up-to-date. Second, security software can significantly slow a PC’s performance, and people using high performance applications such as gaming will sometimes turn off protection to get better performance.Finally, as PC’s are replaced in the home, the older ones are often kept and used by family members, creating home networks. Keeping security working and synchronized on multiple computers adds to both complexity and costs. In addition, many parents want security packages that come with parental controls, to help make Internet surfing safe for their children. In households with networks of PCs with local security software, that means a lot of work on multiple computers.
Protecting the Complete Network
For all of those reasons, many people are moving to network security protection, using a small computing device, or “appliance”, to provide security for the entire network from a single place. That simplifies installation, updating and management of home computing security. It also increases PC performance by removing high resource demand security applications and puts them on an appliance dedicated to and optimized for security applications.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.
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