Security Solutions

A reliable, robust network is the key to making your IT investment work for your business.  Today there are many threats to your network, both internal and external.  Seetec can provide a range of products and services that can minimise that risk.

 

A firewall is a device that interfaces the network to the outside world and shields the network from unauthorised users. The firewall does this by blocking certain types of traffic. For example, some firewalls permit only electronic mail traffic to enter the network from elsewhere. This helps protect the network against attacks on network resources, such as sensitive files, databases, and applications.

 

A firewall will examine all incoming and outgoing traffic to ensure it meets defined security policies and reject the traffic if it doesn't.  Without a quality industry standard, quality recognised firewall your network may be susceptible to malicious attacks.  These attacks could include using your mail server to send spam to other companies which could result in your server being blacklisted, viruses attacks or hackers actually taking over your entire network.

 

How much work time are your employees spending on the internet?  How many non work related sites are they visiting?  Are they visiting sites that break company policies?  How many viruses are these actions bringing into the company?  How much is this activity costing your business?  Using an Employee Internet Management system can bring management and policy enforcement typically onto one machine. 

 

Internet use can be monitored and reported on and non-business use can either be stopped completely or a quota created, for example by allowing access to online sports and news sites for one hour per day. Visiting sites that may bring the company or employee into disrepute will be blocked completely and if required, reported on.

 

Unwanted email into a company's mail servers is increasing on a daily rate.  A typical SME could expect to receive in excess of 30,000 unsolicited emails a year.   These unwanted emails have many negative affects. They can reduce the performance of your mail server and increase the servers load as it has to process far more data than you originally envisaged.

 

Unwanted emails may also break company policies on profanity and may also be of a sexual nature.  They may also bring viruses into the company network which may have a devastating effect on the performance of the network as a whole and consume considerable man hours reolving the problem.

 

Email leaving the company is also becoming a problem, especially with new legislation.  These new regulations should not be taken lightly.  The repercussions of ignoring them can be very costly especially with the imposition of fines and penalties.  Do all of your company emails having a disclaimer attached?  Are there any emails between employees that may bring the company into disrepute or potentially damage your reputation?

 

Seetec can provide best of breed solutions to bring email policy and spam filtering under control in your business.  Once installed, our solutions aim to eliminate at least 90% of spam from being delivered to your mail servers.  With configuration and training, the figure can increase to almost 100%.  Not only will spam be eliminated but also when coupled with anti-virus software on the same server, viruses too can be eradicated. 

 

Internal email which falls outside of company policy will be 'parked' enabling the systems' administrator or HR to view the information and decide the best course of action.