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Parental Control and Individual Privacy

In the modern home, not only do children know how to use computers, they often have their own computers within a home network. At the same time, parents know that youthful curiosity and malicious internet users can put family financial information and even their own children at risk during internet usage. One in every 5 children aged 10 to 17 have received a sexual solicitation over the Internet. Parental controls on internet usage are critical to a family’s piece of mind and safety, but they can conflict with a wish for maintaining a child’s privacy, including exclusive use of a computer. When your kids want you to stay out of their rooms, not to mention computers, how do you keep them safe?

Combining the needs of safety and privacy are leading many parents to network security protection, using a small computing device to provide security for the entire network from a single place. That simplifies installation, updating and management of home computing security. Parental control becomes much easier. From a single computer, the control applications can be accessed and managed, and then the settings are active for all computers on the network.

A very nice additional benefit is increased PC performance, through moving high resource demand security applications from the PC to an appliance dedicated to and optimized for security applications. Improved performance both helps all applications run faster and extends the life of a computer, as it can handle new, higher performing applications for longer.

That isn’t the end of the benefits of network security devices. A review of the main benefits includes:

Easier Parental Control

Parents can manage and set controls that are consistent throughout the home network, allowing children to play interactive games while still protected by advanced dynamic Internet content filtering engine with user-defined white and black lists, all without disturbing the privacy of individual computer users.

Better Performance

By moving the security off of the PC and into a USB or network device, you also get the benefit of improved system performance. Your applications run faster without the interference of PC security software — and your computer is still completely protected from malicious attacks.

Higher Security

When attacks can’t reach the computer, the computer can’t be damaged. That means hackers can’t reach your computer, and so can’t access your personal information. It also means that denial-of-service attacks don’t waylay your CPU and memory, they’re stopped at the security device.

All-in-One Solution

There’s no need to have multiple software packages and the integration difficulties that can cause. In addition, you don’t have to install and maintain the same software on all of your home computers. A single device provides complete protection for all computers.

Hassle Free

There’s no installation necessary on any home computer. All you need to do is connect a small device between your modem and router and you’re done. There’s no configuration needed, the immediately begins to work. Updates are accessed automatically from the network without affecting computer performance.