Protect Every Device and Connection With Network Security Services

A network security assessment is a one-time review that finds weaknesses and gives you a plan to fix them. Network security services are ongoing: BCA makes the fixes, keeps the network configured and updated and watches it for problems as your business changes. Many businesses start with an assessment and move to ongoing protection once the main gaps are closed.

A firewall guards the connection between your network and the internet, but it sees little of what happens inside. If a laptop is infected through an email or a USB drive, a flat network lets it reach every other device. Segmentation, secure switches and Wi-Fi and monitoring inside the network limit how far a problem can spread.

Segmentation splits one network into separate zones, usually with virtual networks (VLANs) and rules that control traffic between them. Servers, staff computers, phones, guest devices and equipment like cameras each get their own zone, and traffic between zones is limited to what's needed. If one device is compromised, the damage stays in its zone instead of reaching your file server or accounting system.

Personal devices connect to a separate Wi-Fi network that gives them internet access but no route to company systems. Business devices can be set up to join the main network with their own credentials instead of a shared Wi-Fi password, so a password passed to a friend or kept by a former employee doesn't open the network.

Most businesses can't say for sure, and that's a risk. BCA keeps track of the devices on your network and flags anything new or unknown, such as a personal device plugged into a wall port or an access point someone brought from home. Unknown devices are checked, then approved, moved to the right zone or blocked.

It shouldn't. Most network security happens out of sight: staff connect to the same Wi-Fi and open the same files as before. Changes that could affect people, such as moving devices into new zones, are planned with you first and usually made outside business hours. If something stops working after a change, BCA's average response time is under 15 minutes.

Remote staff connect through a VPN or another secure remote access method protected by multi-factor authentication, and they only reach the systems their role needs. That keeps a home network or hotel Wi-Fi from becoming a way into your office network.