Firewalls & Routers - your front line protection
FirewallsA firewall acts as a barrier between a corporate local area network [LAN] and the Internet, preventing unauthorised entities from accessing company data. A firewall can be software running on a computer or a hardware device. K & M use 3Com ADSL routers with a built in firewall fro the smaller company and Netscreen for larger business networks.
Routers
A router is a device which forwards data packets along networks. A router is connected to at least two networks, commonly to LAN and its internet service providers network. As mentioned above, we use 3Com multi-service routers which have a built in firewall and are reliable, fault-tolerant and feature rich.
