Why a Good Firewall is Essential for Business Success?

A good firewall solution or service is now very important for managing business infrastructure and data; especially in today’s highly competitive and technology-driven business environment. The increasing number of external and internal treats to enterprise network and data indicates that enterprises have to secure their technology investment. A good firewall is a solution for lots of problems.

1. Securing confidential data: customer details, employee details and reviews, business plans, product data, money transaction details and analytics are only some of the enterprise data that needed to be shared on the network for smooth functioning; and thus are vulnerable for external or internal intrusion. The loss or leak of data may harm the business reputation or can cause business downtimes.
2. Data Manipulation and loss: this is perhaps even worse situation. Loss or human-manipulation to stored information can cause some serious business issues that include downtimes, poor decision making or inappropriate service to customers.
3. Securing IT infrastructure: The opening up of enterprise network to outside intruders can send a business to stone-age. Intruders can delete or edit data, delete or modify applications and application settings, place malicious softwares or spywares, or in worst cases can steal various private credentials.

So controlling the access of users, employees, customers and outsiders to enterprise data is very important. A good firewall solution can offer you all these benefits. When choosing a solution choose the one that is best suited for your enterprise requirements.

SWAN Solutions and Services is a leading Indian enterprise firewall solutions provider helping businesses with firewall solutions of leading brands like SonicWALL Network Security, Palo Alto Networks and Citrix.