Enterprise Security for Small Offices & Home Offices
Computers connected to the Internet are always at risk from malicious attacks for multiple purposes. While large enterprises have access to full-time staff and large network appliances providing 24x7 security protection, owners of Small Offices & Home Offices (SOHO) also need strong network security.
In addition, many home offices are linked into a family’s home network, which may require parental controls to help make Internet surfing safe for children. SOHO networks with local PC security software require a lot of work on multiple computers.
Most importantly, while simple anti-spam, anti-virus and PC firewall solutions provide some protections, 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. Typical PC software is not sufficient.
The devices simplify installation, updating and management of SOHO computing security. 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 offices, 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.
Frequent Attacks
Even SOHO computers are targets of interest for malicious attacks, no less at risk than those in large businesses. 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.Protecting Individual PCs Is Complex
Many SOHO businesses 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, and keeping security working and synchronized on multiple computers adds to both complexity and costs. Second, security software can significantly slow a PC’s performance, wasting your employee’s time and slowing responses to customers via SFA and CRM packages.In addition, many home offices are linked into a family’s home network, which may require parental controls to help make Internet surfing safe for children. SOHO networks with local PC security software require a lot of work on multiple computers.
Most importantly, while simple anti-spam, anti-virus and PC firewall solutions provide some protections, 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. Typical PC software is not sufficient.
Protect the Complete Network
For all of those reasons, many small business 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 provided for the creation of such devices that provide enterprise-level security for small networks at an affordable price.The devices simplify installation, updating and management of SOHO computing security. 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 offices, 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.
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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