Benefits of Firewall

Technology has changed the way we work. Technology is making our life better in handling office work and data, at the same time it’s becoming vulnerable and can be accessed by anyone in the world if it is not protected. Most of the work happens with internet access whether it be computers, servers. One single click on a link can corrupt our entire system and make our data accessible to hackers. There have been cases, where hackers take control of one’s server and hack different servers in different parts of world. These all things happen when there is no security for the systems and data.

As we are in an era where the data is one of the important aspect. Everyone wants to get data. These data are used for different studies, researches and even they are the base of many businesses. Now a day you may see many emails stating they have data of certain users which they are willing to sell. Why such emails are received because people are aware that there is high demand of user details or data.

From a company perspective, it is very important to protect our own data from intruders. One of the best and simple way to protect the systems, servers is to install Firewall. Firewalls were used a decade before. May be many of us have not heard about this but it was there and have come a long way. It existed from 1980s. There are many types of firewalls and Installing Firewall is one of the proactive step to protect your company data, systems and servers from hackers and bad guys over there in internet.

Firewalls helps us in many ways. Some of the few benefits are:

Monitoring the traffic to your network

Once a Firewall is installed in your company it controls which traffic to come into company network and which should be avoided. In other words, we can say it filters the trusted ones from the untrusted one.

Securing the network and the system from virus attacks

Intruders can just access your emails and contacts just by sending you an email with an attachment. And if you open the attachment, your system gets attacked by virus. And the data is stolen before even you know. These situations can be avoided with firewalls.

It Prevents Hacking – There are cases where companies are not even aware that their servers are been hacked. Only information they have is that they are not able to access the server. These kind of major issues can be solved if firewalls are installed. Firewalls prevent unauthorized remote access.

Controlling social media use– Your employees can be prevented from using social media sites and other non-work related sites in the office. This increases productivity and the chances of getting malware attacks from vulnerable sites can also be prevented.

Reduced Administration cost &update latest Technology – With the integration of new threat management technology, it provides a complete security Package. It’s easier to install Next generation firewall so the administration cost involved is less.  Depending the vulnerability of the system and the confidentiality of the data, you can either choose software or hardware firewall. Both has its own advantages and disadvantages.

It is very intimidating to know which firewall is best for one’s company, here is where the IT Service providers Dubai can help you. There are companies in Dubai who install the firewalls for small and medium organizations including other IT Service Dubai. They provide individual service or service under the contract that is IT AMC Dubai.  

When you have a firewall installed, you can use any new technology for your office including call center solutions Dubai. A call center solution provides you different channels to communicate with the customer including communicating with customer when agent is not available through IVR solution Dubai.