Today more than ever, a good network security is essential to businesses of all sizes. Network of criminals, with advanced software and automated task is to find loopholes, not to focus on a separate large-scale enterprises; any easy to achieve. Fortunately, good security is not the same as expensive or complicated to implement, because it was yes.

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Technology to protect valuable data snooping to fend off malicious software, the management of spam, or given to employees working remotely and security, now bundled in the price of the router, most organizations should be able to afford. Although consumer routers to provide some protection, you do not have to spend more alternatives business, provide a more powerful defense system, and usually the function of consumer electronic products simply do not provide.

The fundamental freedoms to attend Small businesses have to cope with the threat of Internet security with a larger company, but usually not the same as the budget and manpower. In recent years, a variety of threats, and become more subtle: In the light of a few years ago, do you worry about a computer hacker or virus would collapse, and now you may never realize that your network has been compromised, until the real economic loss has been completed. For example, your data may be lost or held hostage; you, your colleagues, and / or your customers may be subject to identity theft; or your computer may be used to distribute spam or malicious software.

Of course, once you have the growth of an enterprise to a certain Scale - 1-200 or more - you're the best safety in the hands of the parents, usually an independent contractor or distributor. However, if you are a working group to deal with security or small-scale enterprises, and funds are tight, you can formulate and implement their own security policy. This does not cost a dime, can be very effective, if you put the necessary efforts - but there is no doubt that efforts to participate. Nobody likes to change your password every month to carry out regular backup, and check for software updates, but often this home can help minimize your risk.

Security organizations on how to guide that lets you go. For example, the Internet Security Alliance makes the "common sense guide to network security small business" to provide a free download to registered users, you can read some of its content in the SANS (System Administrator, Audit, Network, Security) Institute's "network security and SMB "document.

Guides had a similar list, and instructions that you may have seen, but worth repeating the main:

• The protection of the user account's password and change them regularly.

• double-check e-mail attachments and links.

• Install and regularly update anti-virus and anti-spyware software.

• Let your current operating system and applications and patches.

• To set up and use a firewall.

Also includes projects, you do not often hear, but they can also help security vulnerabilities:

• Delete unused user accounts and software.

• Regularly back up critical data.

• The realization of network access security.

• restrict access to sensitive information.

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Router connects to your network and the outside world, the main line of defense, and usually has its own firewall; current consumer routers usually have other security features, like, so you should read the manual to know which router to provide. An important step, otherwise, many users are familiar with the often neglected to change the default administrative login settings, so that outsiders can not easily change all the other settings. (Router makers often use the same default settings for all products).

If you are using Wi-Fi, it is time to bite the bullet and use the best available encryption, WPA2's. If you hang on a laptop, does not support WPA2, or upgrade to a disabled or resignation of their own Wi-Fi take full advantage of a wired connection. Similarly, smart phones: the present and the recent release of mobile phones (including the iPhone) support WPA2, you should give up the Wi-Fi phones are not the elderly.

Move up to business class

what is enterprise-class router give you a consumer does not? List of different, but the feature that includes a more powerful firewall (with advanced software, you can check to ensure that the packet is what they claimed to be), the additional anti-virus / anti-Spyware / anti-spam protection, and convenience business-friendly features such as VPN support (so you can remotely access your network and security, not exposed to the intruder), customer access (to visit your office can not access your internal network), and support a wide range of broadband Internet service providers (for backup when a failure or load balancing, all the functions).

Kindly Note that VPN support: This is a key feature of the enterprise-class router, because so many people want to access the network, they are home or away. (It was not you, and remote employees to access corporate data over the internal firewall to keep your copy of the document on the laptop, they may be lost) Not to confuse the VPN to support the delivery of commercial hardware and VPN support for many consumer routers, one purpose is to allow home users to connect to company VPN; business VPN router itself created. No one is asking them to do cost-tied: name D - Link directory 130, for example, is a firewall router 8 port, lets you create VPN access to a maximum of 25 users (not, however, to provide anti-virus, anti - e-mail, or other business function).