Layer 03 of 6Included from the Gold tier
Control over what reaches your network.
Business-grade hardware, sensible separation, and remote access that is not a door left open.
What it actually is
The router your provider supplied gets you online; it does not defend a business. We separate network traffic and restrict access between systems to help limit how far an incident can spread. Exposed remote desktop is one of the most reliably exploited mistakes in small-business IT. We close it.
Why it matters
Once someone is inside, everything reachable is in scope. What is reachable is your decision, made in advance.
Without this layer
A guest device or exposed remote desktop becomes a clear path to your servers.
What we do about it
- Business-grade firewall, specified and managed, not consumer kit
- Network split into zones so problems cannot travel
- Remote desktop replaced with properly authenticated access
The jargon, translated
- Segmentation
- Splitting one network into zones so trouble in one cannot reach the others.
- RDP
- Remote Desktop Protocol: useful internally, dangerous published to the internet.