Network Security

Network Security helps protect the information of your network and information prevents cybercriminals from breaking or spreading through your network and helps to effectively manage your network security. (5)

How Does it Work?

Network Security is simple. They use multiple layers of defense and methods to enforce its controls and policies to ensure that authorized users gain entry while malicious attempts are blocked from carrying out attacks. (5)

Is Network Security Worth it?

Yes it is extremely important to have network security for the following reasons because when Malware infects your device it is normally used to steal sensitive information banking details, login credentials or forms of personal identification which can then be used to steal money from the victim or make a profit by selling the data on the dark web, or hold the important information for a ransom, or to simply damage someone's hard drive or device. (5)

How to Protect Yourself

Here are 4 main ways to get on track to protecting your Network using common security methods. (5)
Antivirus and antimalware software This type of software helps prevent viruses, worms, trojans, ransomware, spyware, as well as rootkits and other malicious programs. It constantly is monitoring for any suspicious activity and runs background checks on files to ensure everything is working fine. Some software programs may also include a feature to continuously track files to search for anything out of place, remove any malware previously stored, and fix the damage caused by the malware files or programs.

VPN's

Using this, a virtual private Network helps strengthen the connection from an endpoint to a network by encrypting any info sent or received when connected. It does this by a method called IPsec or Secure Sockets to correctly identify the communication between the devices and the network they are connected to. (5)

Firewalls

Fire walls are almost exactly what they sound like, virtual walls designed to filter out suspicious activity from the authentic ones. Firewalls put up barriers bwtween your desired network coonection, and set policies to allow or block certain types of traffic. There are many forms of firewalls, such as hardware, software, or in some cases, both. (5)