As a business owner you provide a safe working environment for your employees and your clients.  Protecting your computer systems and DATA is just as important.

Every business computer system should include the following:

• Current Operating System - Over the last 10 years the computer industry has grown in ways that nobody could predict. Many more demands have been placed on the operating system as a result of this. It is essential to run a current operating system at your place of business. The benefits will be greater speed, reliability and productivity.

• Current Networking Infrastructure - Your computer systems and those outside your network can only communicate as fast as the wires and equipment that connect them. With the rapidly falling prices of networking components, even small business can have a rock solid infrastructure on a reasonable budget.

• Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) - a battery backup product that protects your computer system components from energy irregularities and can also allow your equipment to run when no regular power source is available. Details

• Anti Virus -

• Backup and Recovery System -

• Redundant Disk System -

• Strong passwords - If passwords are simple or not used, anybody can get to your data.  Passwords should be 6 or more characters in length, and should use a combination of numbers, letters and alpha numeric characters.  Change your passwords often and do not reuse old passwords.

• Firewall - a system or group of systems that enforces an access control policy between two networks. The actual means by which this is accomplished varies widely, but in principle, the firewall can be thought of as a pair of mechanisms: one which exists to block traffic, and the other which exists to permit traffic. Details

• Anti SPAM -