Not so long ago, getting your computer equipment to work at all was quite an achievement. Today, that is the easy part. Now the problem is keeping it safe!

The Internet has become an essential resource for all of us, yet, at the same time it is a more hostile environment than it ever was and is becoming more dangerous every day.

You bring your shiny new laptop home from the shop, take it out of the box, switch it on and connect to the internet (possibly even wirelessly). You do not activate your anti-virus software and you do not activate any kind of firewall. Within ten minutes your new toy has caught the 'Sasser' virus and has been reduced to a vegetable.

No, you say, that can't be true. Believe me, today it happens. I have seen reports of unprotected computers being infected by viruses within 30 seconds of being connected to the Internet.

See our check list for safe computing before you go any further.

Security Audits begin with physical security, then look at entry points and exit points to and from the network. We look at security risks from the outside and also from the inside.