Cisco Network Design Solutions for Small-Medium Businesses

Firewalls

Gone are the days of trust on the Internet. Even as the Internet facilitates widespread connectivity and almost instantaneous global communications, it also represents a potential source of danger to an SMB whose network has not been hardened against outside intruders.

The motives for outside intrusion range from malicious play to commercial gain to a full-scale industrial espionage carried out by agents of a foreign government. A properly deployed firewall in the context of comprehensive end-to-end security implementation helps to secure a network from those dangers.

Whatever reasons have been identified in a security policy for securing a network's parameter via a firewall, firewalling an SMB's network that is connected to the Internet ...