IFS provides even small businesses with the benefit of protection behind highly redundant, enterprise grade firewalls.

The IFS provides much more as well – an Internet link, but one that allows the business to consume services such as BRS and SpeakEasy without consuming expensive data. The service can also be used to interlink Ultrafast Broadband Fibre connected offices and facilities.

With the increasing prevalence of sophisticated attacks through malware such as Ransomware traditional firewalls that block ports are not sufficient protection. Next Generation Firewalls use additional scanning and lookups to ‘deep inspect’ web traffic. They have the ability to potentially block malware BEFORE it enters your network. With the disruption and potential loss of data caused by attacks such as Cryptolocker (the currently common variant of Ransomware) Next Generation Firewalls are the recommended default level of protection. Our IFS Advanced plans provide you with Next Generation Firewall protection.