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F-Secure offers another good business solution for protecting all your business resources, including workstation PCs, laptops, file servers, and email servers. F-Secure Small Business Suite is a capable small business internet security suite solution, with a variety of features and benefits that make it one of the best for your small business.

The F-Secure Small Business Suite actually is composed of 4 products, Client Security, Anti-Virus for Windows Servers, Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange, and the centralized Policy Manager. The suite is specifically designed to protect businesses with anywhere up to 99 computers.

Certifications:

F-Secure includes a firewall with advanced intrusion prevention. The firewall effectively facilitates information flow while protecting your business assets from hackers and worms. The F-Secure firewall is actually quite flexible, automatically adjusting itself for optimum security based on its network location.

Detection & Cleaning:

The antivirus component of F-Secure Small Business Suite is very good, protecting your business resources from a number of threats in real-time. F-Secure technologies include the DeepGuard host-based intrusion prevention system, and BlackLight scanning to uncover even the deepest rootkits.

F-Secure also protects client workstations from malware that may infiltrate the system from other outlets. F-secure Small Business Suite is equipped to defend computers from threats carried on USB jump drives. Furthermore, before laptops or new PCs connect to the network, the Cisco NAC plug-in makes sure that they are adequately secure.

F-Secure includes antivirus protection for workstations (PC and laptop), file servers, and email servers. The virus definition files are updated automatically and regularly.

Internet Protection:

F-Secure is equipped to block adware and spyware in real-time. Furthermore, the real-time scanner can defend from threats that attempt to hijack your system, change system files, or inject malicious code.

The Small Business Suite from F-Secure also protects your e-mail servers, scanning email from Pop3, SMTP, and/or IMAP4 sources. The software is capable of filtering content to eliminate objectionable materials as well as annoying (and harmful) spam.

Management Features:

One nice additional feature of F-Secure Small Business Suite that really helps your business is Neighborcast. This feature utilizes peer-to-peer database updating to distribute updates within your Local Area Network. Not only does this technology allow your PCs to get updated quickly (within 1 minute from the first threat confirmation), but it also effectively minimizes the company bandwidth that would otherwise be required to conduct the backups externally.

Another added benefit of F-Secure Small Business Suite is the ability for managers/administrators to access application controls. These tools allow you to centrally restrict specific applications from the internet.

Ease of Use:

F-Secure is pretty simple to use and manager. Because the solution is centrally deployed and managed, the interfacing will primarily be done by IT personnel. The central management is made possible by the F-Secure Policy Manager, which includes advanced policy management, simple control, and reporting features. The console lets you control each component of the Small Business Suite, and is actually quite versatile. And you don’t have to worry about employees accidentally (or maliciously) messing with the settings since you can restrict the controls.

Help & Support:

Setting up the entire solution for workstations, email servers and file servers is relatively painless with the centrally managed F-Secure Policy Manager.

Summary:

F-Secure Small Business Suite is a fine business internet security suite, and a good all-in-one software package for small business security. With complete protection for your whole business, from email servers to individual computer workstations, F-Secure Small Business Suite has got you covered.

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