FEATURES OF INFOMIX FIREWALL

BLOCK EMAIL PHISHING

Email phishing are designed to look like authentic emails from your regular contacts, with pertinent information from your business and personal activities. However, these are fake emails with booby traps for unwary receivers. FBI reported in 2018 that global financial loss from business email scams was about $12.5 Billion dollars, with one in four companies that received phishing email compromised.
Infomix Firewall will scan every email received by your company and discard or quarantine suspected email scams. However, your email server must be setup by Infomix for the firewall to block phishing emails. Also, we will educate your staff on ways to protect themselves from email phishing attacks.

 ELIMINATE PRODUCTIVITY LOSS

Staff tends to spend inordinate amount of time on frivolous internet browsing, watching YouTube videos and movies on company hours. Infomix Firewall can be setup to block or reduce bandwidth for videos and movies. This will reduce time wasted by employees on the internet and enhance staff productivity.

BANDWIDTH CONTROL

Substantial amount of internet bandwidth is wasted through uncontrolled internet usage by staff.
Infomix Enterprise Firewall will allocate strict internet bandwidth quotas to various categories of staff depending on their responsibility. Whereas management staff may have unrestricted to the internet, other staff internet usage may be limited. Furthermore, company visitors and guests will be further restricted on the internet since internet usage is a privilege not a right. Dedicated internet bandwidth are expensive and should be utilized for official work, unfortunately, staff and visitors use the internet for bandwidth hogging applications like movies and videos unrelated their official work that consume a lot of the internet bandwidth. Infomix Firewall can be setup to block or restrict the usage of these applications thereby conserving the company internet bandwidth.

RESTRICT VPN USAGE

Staff and visitors are becoming adept at using VPN (Virtual Private Network) and proxies to bypass any restrictions the firewall has placed on the internet. These VPNs allow the users to access anything on the internet anonymously moreover, since the VPNs data are encrypted and can pass through regular TCP port 80 and 443, most firewalls are unable to block them. However, with advanced SSL Inspection, Infomix Firewall will block most VPNs such as PSIPHON, BetterNet, OpenVPN, HoTSpotShield, UltraSurf, etc thereby preventing staff and visitors from stealing your company internet bandwidth.

BLOCK RANSOMWARE

When hackers gain access to computer networks, they can lock all computer hard drives, and request that some ransom be paid before the hard drives will be unlocked. Apart from the crippling effect of ransomware on companies’ operations since most companies depend on computers, the financial loss are staggering estimated to reach $11.5 billion in 2019. There will be a ransomware attack on businesses every 14 seconds according to cyber security experts. While we will advise that all software especially Microsoft Windows OS should be updated with the latest patch from the vendor. Infomix Firewall will block known ransomeware IP addresses and Tor exit nodes. Since Ransomeware attack invariably start from phishing emails, Infomix Firewall will block known hosts IP addresses distributing phishing emails. Don’t be a victim of ransomware get Infomix Enterprise Firewall.

PROTECT YOUR COMPANY ON THE INTERNET GET INFOMIX FIREWALL

BLOCK MALICIOUS DOWNLOADS AND COMPUTER VIRUSES

Computer viruses usually gain access to computer networks through indiscriminate files, audio and video downloads from the internet by staff. Infomix Firewall will scan and block all downloads from the internet containing viruses, thereby protecting your company compter network. Using the latest viruses’ signatures from Google and Cisco’s Sourcefire subsidiary, Infomix Firewall will prevent your staff from unknowingly downloading virus infected files from the internet.

 BLOCK PORNOGRAPHY AND INDECENT WEBSITES AND CONTENTS

Infomix Firewall will prevent staff and visitors from accessing pornography and indecent websites on the internet. This will enable staff to focus on their official work. Also, these pornography websites are riddled with computer viruses and malicious contents that will infect the computers of the staff browsing the websites and also transmit the computer viruses to other computers in the company.

REDUCE EMAILS SPAM

A lot of emails received daily are unsolicited adverts, indecent and malicious. Infomix Firewall will reduce email spam by blocking IP addresses of the spammers email servers. This will prevent the clogging of staff email inbox with email spams ensuring that staff can concentrate on official and legitimate emails. Subsequently, internet bandwidth wastage used by email spams will be eliminated, since the unsolicited emails will be blocked at the firewall gateway and will not reach users computers and devices. Also, company internet security will be enhanced because most of the blocked email spams contain computer viruses and malicious contents.

MONITOR INTERNET ACTIVITIES

Infomix Firewall can monitor staff internet activities. When staff know that the management keep track of their online activities and the websites they visit, they will be more careful on the internet and download less files from the internet. This will improve the overall internet security of the company.

PREVENT HACKERS

People that are trying to break into your company network will be stopped by the Infomix Firewall. All open TCP and UDP ports will be blocked except those network ports needed for your company’s operations. As such unsolicited access into your company computer private network will be blocked.

COST

We are confident that Infomix firewall will meet and exceed your expectation for internet security, that we will provide the enterprise firewall free for 1 month. This will enable you assess its performances without cost or commitment. However, Infomix Firewall cost is reasonable but depend on the extent of the customer computer network. The firewall cost will be provided after evaluation your computer network by Infomix and it include installation, training and ongoing internet monitoring.

TRAINING

Infomix will train your company staff on the operation and management of the Firewall to ensure them proficiency to independently manage the internet security of the company.