The Firefox Browser offers many features that Internet Explorer does not. The Firefox browser has superior management of cookies and also has many free addons to cut back on the amout of invasive advertizing that you are exposed to.
DNS and Network Security
Those that control the DNS control the entire internet. DNS = Dynamic Name Server. A DNS server is to put it in over simplified terms “A type of server that converts IP address numbers to domain names and vice versa”. Every computer uses DNS to access information online. Most computers are set to use the DNS provided by the ISP that gives them a connection to the web.
Some DNS servers have been programmed not to respond to bad domains or bad IP addresses. This is what is called “Sheltered DNS or “Firewalled DNS” When the spammers and malware websites are blocked from your DNS servers. They cannot for the most part send you mail or see your website. There is something to be said for that. At Sheck Technologies we have Sheltered DNS available for those clients who are fed up with junk traffic on the server. Sheltered DNS is very useful ito reduce spam and malicious traffic on your server as well. “Sheltered DNS or “Firewalled DNS” will not completely eliminate malicious traffic and online threats, but it will make a serious dent in the problem and the reduction is wasted bandwidth is noticable.
Contact us for details at 304-429-3812 or by using the following link. http://www.shecktechnologies.com/contact-us/
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Network Security
In the last few years we have been studying and learning to no small degree, the art and science of network security and firewall administration. After many years of running hosting servers, and managing firewalls and routers. It has been a battle with hordes of spammers and a few dozen botnets but gradually we have taken the upper hand on all of the networks that we currently manage.
Our primary speciality is spam abatement and mail server / DNS server administration in a business enviroment with in house or co-located servers. Our customers think we have became quite good at getting rid of the spam that all too frequently over-runs the mailboxes of many busines users. After many years of experience with server administration it now takes no more than a few hours to substancially reduce the spam that is bombarding your mail servers. We are not going to get rid of all of it because new spammers pop up on a regular basis. However we can and will get rid of the majority of it. That alone will make your network far moew secure than it was.
You are without doubt aware of the numerous “fly by night internet marketing companies” that aggressively insist that you unsubscribe from a multitude of mailing lists that you never subscribed to in the first place? Are you tired of asking these aggressive advertizers to leave you alone?
Do you get spam from countries that you never heard of, in languages that you cannot read? We can help with that too. How do we do this? We automate the blocking of malicious traffic to your servers, therefore the malicious traffic cannot access your network.
We have a huge database of IP ranges assigned to these companies that can be easily blocked on your server.
We also have sheltered / firewalled mail server and DNS hosting for business entities who require a managed solution to abate malicious traffic. If your business is having a serious problem with spam or malicious traffic. Feel free to contact us via the contact form.
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