Firewall “Bang for Your Buck”: A Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Edition

Information security amounts to installing host-based anti-virus software, Wi-Fi passwords, in addition to configuring permissions and native multi-factor authentication in cloud-based applications for many smaller U.S.-based businesses. Extensive and often even basic network perimeter security is overlooked. This research investigates low-cost changes to the network perimeter firewall to reduce these businesses’ exposure to outsider threats significantly.