Direction’s security solutions are tailored to individual business needs ensuring a secure network, prompt data recovery plan and peace of mind.

Maintaining a secure IT infrastructure and network is one of the most important issues facing businesses today. External threats such as hackers and viruses can damage or destroy valuable files and data, while internally; improper use of IT resources can place your business at risk and damage or slow your network.

Direction provide a wide range of up-to-date security options and failsafe redundancies to protect your business from the loss of information and down time and give you peace of mind.
Computer virus can cause any number of problems, ranging from a disruptive nuisance to crashing entire networks and damaging or destroying business information.

Firewalls create a protective barrier between your computer and potentially harmful content on the Internet, guarding against hackers, computer viruses and worms. An essential security feature of any network, firewalls must be updated regularly and carefully managed to protect your data. Direction can design and maintain the best suited firewall technology for your network depending on the content and information management needs of your business.

Content filtering and antivirus protect your business from damaging content coming into your network via email and the internet, and stop the delivery of dangerous files and inappropriate content from your system, ensuring that staff communications are appropriate and in keeping with company policy. Monitoring and managing employee internet and email use is an important aspect of maintaining user productivity and reducing the strain on company resources. Direction can implement a monitoring solution for staff internet use and outgoing email content to ensure that non-work related web browsing, illegal downloads and inappropriate emails are stopped before productivity or harassment, discrimination and copyright laws are threatened.

All incoming communications carry some risk of infection through virus or malicious code. Directions manage and maintain up-to-date antivirus procedures which approve all incoming data to ensure the security of your network against viruses. Spam and unsolicited data such as pop-ups can place unwanted strain of IT resources and user productivity. Direction’s content filtering solutions, which are updated regularly, control this nuisance data, preventing it from reaching your system and reducing the burden on your business resources.

Disaster recovery is the final failsafe that ensures the protection of your business against data loss or corruption. A well planned disaster recovery strategy can be the difference between losing days or weeks of productivity and losing minutes. For some companies back-up procedures take place on a daily basis, for others a continual process of backing up every few minutes is required. Direction understands that prompt recovery of lost data, whether it be a single file or an entire network, is just as important as ensuring the safe back-up itself. We tailor a recovery plan that best reflects the individual needs of your organisation ensuring the safety of your business.