Security
If you aren't already using OpenDNS to protect your small-business network, you should take a few minutes now to set it up. The security benefits are well worth the time investment: OpenDNS is free, it has contributed significantly to combat against the Conficker worm, and it will protect you from any number of future attacks. As a bonus, it may enable your network's users to experience better browsing performance.
Open source technologies already permeate most data centers, and their influence is spreading. However, data center managers
who wouldn't think twice about dropping a new Linux server into a rack feel very differently about building an open source
firewall as the main barrier between their own network and the great unwashed. Security remains outside the open-source comfort zone.
m0n0wall is a project aimed at creating a complete, embedded firewall software package that, when used together with an embedded PC, provides all the important features of commercial firewall boxes (including ease of use) at a fraction of the price (free software).
I have over fifteen years experience in systems and network configuration and support. For most of that time I have been working with Open Source Software, and believe that Open Source software provides the best solutions for business, educational and personal use.
