Pfsense
Today with the advent of cost effective small business high speed internet access and movement of many traditional brick and mortar businesses now moving to the online realm. Companies are dealing with more and more data than ever before.
More companies are also doing mobile computing via VPN and other remote access technologies. While some Software as a Services (SaaS) solutions come with things like SSL encryption. However more companies like ours are hosting our own applications such as CRM and various other mission critical applications almost all of which can be accessed over the public internet with little or no encryption, even though you can do things like using none standard ports, hackers can still use tools like Nmap or other port scanners to find these open ports in order to hack your network and destroy this precious information or use keyloggers and other exploits to capture confidential customer data such as credit card numbers.
How do you stop or at least give your self a fighting chance to prevent such attacks? Get an enterprise strength firewall with Intrusion Detection (IDS) and Intrusion Prevention(IPS). The trouble with these systems is that up until recently these appliances have cost thousands of dollars, Until now. Because of the growing trend in network based attacks we at KCCS have spent countless hours researching and testing various hardware solutions and are proud to announce that we have built a custom solutions that is specifically designed for small businesses.
I have been writing a lot about virtualiztion and going green over the last few weeks, but a thought hit me today as I was planning my next article. I realized that some Small/ Medium Sized Businesses(SMBs), may not even have an established data network to even begin implementing these solutions. I have been to many SMBs for various reasons both as a customer and as a technician and what I discovered was while most had one or several computers they were all stand alone boxes with little or no networking being used. To top it off most of these businesses depend on one computer for things like order tracking and even finances with pretty much no access control.