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Security
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Network
security does not begin or end with firewalls and virus software. Good
network security encompasses many different aspects of your data
infrastructures, from data backup strategies and off-site data storage to
disaster recovery and incident response. Your data's
confidentiality, integrity, and
availability are essential to the success of your business.
Security Assessments are the first step towards effective network
security. It is vitally important to your business for you to understand
exactly what makes up your network, and what vulnerabilities could put your
data at risk. Additionally, it is important to locate areas of weakness not
only in your network infrastructure, but in other aspects of your business's
daily operations. Some of the areas we look at are Internet security, company
policies, physical security, data protection, data encryption, remote access,
and disaster recovery.
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Internet Security
Internet
access has become a necessity for doing business in the 21st century. We need
it for e-mail, advertising, purchasing, customer contact, and remote access
for those employees who travel the highways of America. Businesses also need
to provide Internet access to company Websites for their customers, suppliers,
employees, and technology support staff.
We can provide software and hardware firewalls to prevent access to your
network by malicious agents or we can test your existing firewall for security
holes. We can set up a VPN (Virtual Private Network) to provide secure access
to your network from remote locations.
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Viruses
In general, a firewall cannot protect
your network against attacks in which something is mailed or copied to an
internal computer where it is then executed. The PC Netbuilder staff can
blanket your organization with virus protection software - ensuring that every
vulnerable desktop has virus-scanning software running. With virus-scanning
software, your network will be protected against viruses introduced by floppy
disks, modems, and the internet.
Many viruses are able to attack a network because of poor patch management of
operating systems and productivity software. This happened with the
Sasser and the Welchia worms.
We can manage your software maintenance to prevent this kind of attack.
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Spyware
Most people are familiar with freeware,
shareware, cookies, media players, interactive content, and file sharing. What
they may not realize is that many of these files and programs contain
malicious code that is designed to collect data from your computer and send it
back to the people who authored that code.
This code is referred to as spyware.
Spyware can track your surfing habits, abuse your Internet connection by
sending the collected data to a third party, profile your shopping
preferences, hijack your browser start page or pages, alter important system
files, and can do all this without your knowledge or permission. The security
and privacy implications of spyware should be quite obvious and undesirable on
any system or network! Spyware also reduces the performance of your computers
and can reek havoc with the operation of your connected devices such as
printers, scanners, and CD and DVD players.
PC Netbuilder Plus can clean your systems of spyware and install software to
help prevent re-infection.
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