5 Ways to Protect Your Business from Network Vulnerabilities

Network vulnerabilities, intrusions and downtime canto your network. At home, at a customer’s office
seriously threaten the livelihood of a business, costingor even on vacation, they’re on top of your
thousands (if not millions) of dollars in revenue andcomputer’s security — and the integrity of your
productivity. The more you know your network, thenetwork once a laptop that’s been offline logs on
easier it is to guarantee uptime and optimalagain — as long as the laptop is connected to the
performance.internet.
Here are 5 Ways to Protect Your Business from5. Generate Security Reports on Demand. Generate
Network Vulnerabilities:expert IT security reports on demand — satisfying
1. Detect & Solve Problems. Detect networkyour board, auditors and regulatory bodies with no
vulnerabilities and problems when they happen noneed to hire expensive outside consultants.
matter the day or the time. They provide you withTo deal with network vulnerabilities and security
informative, step-by-step advice on how to solve eachthreats effectively, IT administrators need immediate
security issue the system detects.access to just the right data and problem-solving
2. Help Leverage Investments in Security. Byadvice. Assessments can monitor any or all of the
monitoring all your computers around the clock —following:
even laptops not connected to your local network —Unapproved Software: Ensures that all software
network vulnerability assessments alert you andapplications installed on your network computers are
provide a recommended solution the minute any partapproved by your company's security policy.
of your security system stops doing its job. This helpsSuspicious Traffic: Detects abnormal traffic on your
you boost security levels by leveraging your existingnetwork that could indicate an attempt to access or
investments in IT security.manipulate your computers.
3. Free Up Time for IT Staff. Consolidate networkIntrusion Vulnerability: Identifies open ports or other
vulnerabilities, threat-detection, security monitoring andundesired access points that could put your computers
advanced reporting to a single browser-basedat risk of intrusion.
interface, dramatically reducing your IT administrationMalware Protection: Protects your network with
burden and freeing up time for other tasks. This putsantivirus and other computer security software;
problem-solving security expertise in your officeensures installation, updates and proper function on all
around the clock.computers.
4. Secure Your Laptop Computers Outside the Office.Updates & Patches: Assures all critical security
Keep monitoring your company’s laptops evenupdates and patches are installed, with Microsoft's
when they’re out of the office and not connectedminimum protection.