A fairly high percentage of computer users are now educated enough to know they must have security products deployed in order to protect their computers.
In the case of Corporate Users, the IT staff makes sure their gateway is stacked with the latest and greatest security appliances protecting the parameter.
In the case of Home Users, the users themselves make sure to install security software, typically a combination of personal firewall, antivirus and anti-spam. Or a single streamlined Internet Security Suite.
In both cases, the solution is simply not good enough!
Well start with explaining why security software running on top of the computer it aims to protect will always be inferior to an external hardware solution.
The following points are well known to the IT professionals as they would obviously never rely on software installed on users computers alone, and will always focus on the hardware-based security appliances protecting the organizations perimeter.
The advantages of external hardware-based security appliances are:
Immunity from the inherent vulnerabilities of the underlying OS If, for instance, an organization is...