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What? CEO’s, executives and business owners are protecting their network with a cheap home based firewall?

Any successful business professional can become the target of people wishing to do them harm. Why would a business professional trust their family’s safety to a $30 home level router when they can get a much better firewall for less than $100? And a great one for less than $300?  How much is your family’s security worth to you?  Executives and owners always ask which is the best one to get at home.

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Posted by Mike Foster on November 5th, 2008 in IT Security.

Do you connect to other networks besides your own? At someone else’s office, a hot spot, coffee shop, airport, or hotel?

When you connect to someone else’s network, you are possibly opening yourself up to attack from other computers on that network.  The other computer owner’s may have no idea that their computer is even infected or that it will attempt to attack your machine. You also open yourself up to liability issues if your computer is suspected of infecting the other network to which you are attaching.  The easiest solution is:

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Posted by Mike Foster on October 22nd, 2008 in IT Security.

We never had a virus before, so I always thought our IT security must be A-OK!

A common frustration from CEO’s, executives, and business owners who suffer a loss from a virus is they “thought everything was ok” since “they never had a problem before now.”

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Posted by Mike Foster on August 9th, 2008 in IT Security.

Think you’re secure? See how easily you can be hacked.

I’ve been demonstrating hacking in my presentations, and in response to many requests, the video is now available of the hacking session. Watch the hacking demonstration video below.

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Posted by Mike Foster on May 29th, 2008 in IT Security.

 
 

 

 


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