You can put an immense amount of money into keeping your systems and data safe with hardware. However, without training your users on security awareness and testing them regularly, you are leaving a major hole in your security posture.
Commercial grade virus and malware software on all workstations and servers. Computers are scanned realtime and updated on the hour.
Allows you to manage, configure, and monitor the settings of your LAN, including controls over LAN traffic, prioritizing certain channels, and create new virtual LANs to keep smaller groups of devices segregated and to better manage their traffic. Along with redundancy features that duplicate and recovery data in the event of a device or network failure.
What good is it to put all of these security measures in place if you don't test it to see where you stand? It is important to test on a regular basis and make adjustments when needed.
Scan for spam and malware. Whitelisting, blacklisting and quarantining catch hundreds of emails per day even in the smallest business. This is why it's so important to train your users and test them constantly. Users are the number one reason that holes get poked into your security.
Software and hardware firewalls scan traffic into and out of your network/computers. Different types can provide a different level of protection at the lowest and highest level to make you as invisible as possible. That is a good thing!