Is your hardware slowing your business down?

Is your hardware is slowing your business down and you don’t know where to turn to for advice on what to buy and where?

Did you know that CNLtd offers an hour’s free consultancy, providing you with the opportunity to meet us and for us to understand you, your business and your IT systems.  

Based in Shropshire CNLtd provide nationwide IT support to SMBs.

We have some great contacts with suppliers to sources some very reasonable kit for your Office.

We are also Dell Hardware Equipment Vendors and are very knowledgeable about the whole Dell range of Laptops, Desktops and Servers.

One of our suppliers’s recently contacted us about some very reasonable network printers from Brother for only £85.00 plus VAT each.   Ideal for a small office, they provide fast, double-sided high quality printing.

The team at CNLtd prides itself on the knowledge we have and will never try and sell you something you don’t need. 

In addition to this we will only source good quality products as experience shows that saving a few hundred pounds on the initial hardware cost will pale into insignificance against the thousands of pounds of lost productivity and profitability due to system failure.

Contact us today on sales@cnltd.co.uk or 0333 444 3455 for more information on how we can help your business.

What a firewall does – securing your network

The common features / benefits of firewalls:
 

• block unwanted incoming traffic to your network
• block outgoing network traffic based on source of destination ie. You may want to prevent employees from accessing certain web sites
• block network traffic based on content ie integrating with a virus scanner to prevent files or emails with viruses from entering your network
• allowing access to your network and internal resources to selective users
• allowing connection to internal network with a virtual private network (VPN).  VPNs allow secure connection from the internet to a corporate network ie allowing staff to work from home
• allowing the ability to monitor traffic on the network.

Generally a firewall is installed where your internal network connects to the Internet. However, some large scale organisations also use them between different parts of their own network to provide different levels of security.   An organisations Firewall can be a piece of hardware or software.

CNLTD have installed Hardware Firewalls for many of their customers and recommend Watchguard for being robust and easy to manage.  The cost for what theoretically looks like a small box is minor compared to having hackers get onto your network.

 

If you would like more information on Firewalls please contact us on 0333 44 3455 or at sales@cnltd.co.uk

Network Security - Combating Spyware / Malware

It was recently estimated that 90% of all PC’s are harbouring 30 or more pieces of Spyware/Malware and that these are to blame for half of all PC crashes within an organisation.

Spyware is a general term for a class of harmful applications that are distributed through the user browsing the Internet in a "normal" fashion. Typically Spyware is installed without the user’s knowledge by attaching itself onto what seems a harmless download.

Once installed it secretly gathers information from the infected PC, this includes facts about the PC itself, the user’s browsing habits and the network the PC is sat on. This personal information is then transmitted over the Internet connection without the user’s explicit consent or knowledge.

The potential for damage to your network and organisation from Spyware includes: thefts of personal and intellectual property, opening a backdoor into your network, violation of privacy, productivity losses and bandwidth costs.

Our services

There are a number of free software products which can be loaded on each and every PC, we believe that by using multiple software products the performance of your PC's can be severely decreased. Add to this the time involved going around each machine making sure it is up to date and has been scanned recently, means you can be wasting many hours protecting your PC's.

Commercial Networks Ltd can provide enterprise-wide solutions that prevent, detect and remove Spyware on all machines from your central server. By using AVG we can offer one product to protect against Spyware, Malware and Virus infections, all controlled from the same management screen. All the updates are only downloaded once to your server living bandwidth for your internet usage. At a glance you can quickly see which machines have failed to pick up the update and re deploy it to these machines.

Contact us today on 0333 444 3455 or at sales@cnltd.co.uk for more information.