How to Secure Your Website and Home Network Effectively

Believe it or not your computer is vulnerable. There is no sure or certain way to fully secure any network. However, with a measure of several common sense approaches you can effectively secure your computer or network from virtually any threat. Here is a tip: Always have a good firewall, antivirus, and spyware/adware/malware remover on your system, have it running constantly and updated at least once a week (Some software such as McAfee has automated updates, which I highly recommend.) The fact of the matter is that whenever your computer is on or connected to another computer, i.e. the internet you could be exposed to a multitude of various attacks, some automated viruses written by rebellious children, and some written by professionals with too much time on their hands, not to even begin with the fact that on some of the web pages out there are viruses or malicious scripts that you may not even be aware had infected your computer, and they do so automatically upon you opening the webpage. Often times you won't even know you infected until it is already done, and your only lee from the storm is the following options I lay out for you, among some others I will be mentioning in future articles.

As far as the frequency or source of attacks, they quite literally come from all over the globe. Some days the exploits and attacks may not be too bad but other days are simply unreal. The amount of alerts we get some days would shock you. I monitor a server on my network, as well as dozens of remote servers for security, and I additionally monitor the security of web based transactions for my own site as well as my clients. The bottom line for me: Secured. Period.