Maintaining a Secure Network

Maintaining a secure network connected to the Internet is becoming more difficult as time goes on. New viruses are released daily, higher machine speeds and more sophisticated and automated tools mean that hackers can scan and attack wide sections of the Internet at a time. More consumer broadband connections mean that there is an increasing source of relatively vulnerable high performance computers available to be harvested as "bots" and used as proxies for illicit activity. The increasing complexity of current operat...