A secured network is something that not only businesses but also regular day to day people with personal computers must have. Unless you want a computer that will start to run slow and/or is infected with many different types of viruses which will ultimately lead to the crash of your system then it is a good idea you invest in network security.
"The term virus refers to malicious software that requires help from computer users to spread to other computers. Computer infections such as viruses and worms spread over networks of contacts between computers, with different types of networks being exploited by different types of infections" (Balthrop, 2004, para.2). In the past year it was reported that 82 percent of companies contracted viruses, worms, or other attacks, and one-third of those said that their networks were breached by unauthorized users (Villano, 2005, para.2). …
