A & S Tech recommends five key strategies that will go a long way towards making your network bullet proof.  These strategies will provide you with the most reliable, stable, and secure network available without you having to paying the world for it.

 

 

                           

 

Virus protection-

The first step towards making your network more secure is adequate virus and malware protection.  Protection that will alert and monitor from one central location.  Protection provided by Sophos.

Sophos is the absolute best in the antivirus realm.  It offers the appropriate protection from threats such as malwares, spyware, data loss, & other unwanted applications that have the potential to harm your network. 

Sophos is highly capable of providing your network with the crucial protection it needs.  Sophos will provide protection from any incoming or outgoing threats, allowing you & your employees to browse the internet safely.

Sophos is also capable of sending email alerts to your IT service provider when a virus is detected and will also alert them when a computer has not updated its virus definitions within a threshold set.

 

Image Backup

Losing documents or having a virus corrupt your files can be frustrating.  Hours of work lost in a matter of seconds.  Photos that can’t be replaced are lost, financial data gone.  This can, and maybe already has, happened to you. 

It is one thing to have a backup of data on your server, but to have an image backup of your server is an added level of protection.

Most organisations only take file level backups of their server. When hardware then fails on the server the service provider replaces the hardware, reloads windows, then restores the server from backup.  Unfortunately, this procedure can take days before the server is restored back to its original state and is normally an expensive procedure.

 

Take precautionary measures now to stop this event from ever taking place simply  by taking an image level backup of your server.

With an Image level backup of your server you can repair any dead hardware on your server and restore lost images within hours. In fact, it is sometimes possible to repair the hardware in less than an hour!

However, if the hardware cannot be repaired it is possible to restore the entire image to a different hardware when using Acronsis State of the Art universal restore functionality.

Acronis Back up & Recovery can assure you that all your data is kept safe and well protected.  Acronis is easy to use therefore, saving you time in the long run.  For a few hundred dollars now, you can save yourself a few thousand dollars in the future.  Relax and let Acronis be the one to protect your valued network.

 

 

Monitor Your Network

 It is important that you manage & monitor your network against threats so that we can react quickly to any menace that jeopardizes your network. 

There are several monitoring softwares available on the market which can provide your entire network 24 hour protection of all data.

Monitoring your critical computers and servers let your service provider be there to offer technical assistance before you even notice there is a problem. 

Monitoring software is recognized for its ability to lower costs, improve network performance and increase productivity.  

We understand the value you place on your network so we are constantly monitoring your system.  Alerts will be directed to us if a problem is detected allowing us to act quickly.  

For example, A & S Tech received an alert from a customer’s monitoring agent advising A & S Tech a critical disk drive on the server was nearing capacity.  A & S Tech reacted quickly by clearing up the unneeded files sitting on the drive.  Had we not been alerted to the event then the drive would have reached its capacity causing email to stop working for all staff in the organisation. This would have caused server productivity issues for the customer until the problem was resolved.  Because monitoring software was in-place the entire issue was avoided, saving the customers precious time and money! 

So keep your systems up and running with good network monitoring software. 

 

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