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The Importance of Updating your Website Content The first impression is usually the most influential. In today’s business, the most influential tool is your website! It's usually the first place your customers visit to learn about your business and the services you offer. In this case, it's important to keep the website content up-to-date and focus on the messaging. Creating your website is often not enough to get your customers involved. Your website will commonly be a resource to your clients and should be updated and changed to increase your chances of advancing in search engine results. Updating your website content is vital to businesses today. Visitors use this information on a regular basis to find you and see what services you offer. Reasons for Updating Your Website Content: Provides Frequent Indexing As more and more sites, articles, blogs and downloads are used to update your site, search engines will frequently visit your website. Search engines use web crawlers,...

What is a Firewall? A network firewall is typically a hardware appliance that provides network security by filtering inbound and outbound data and internet traffic according to user-defined guidelines. Generally speaking, the firewall’s job is to decrease or remove any malicious communications or data while allowing legitimate communications to the network to flow easily. In most infrastructures, the firewall is the first layer of security in place that can prevent an attack. In this blog, we will be starting with an explanation of traffic through Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) packets and then we will move into the various issues related to security. Network Security TCP Network Packets We are going to take a look at the appearance of network traffic but first we will explain the protocols of the network traffic. TCP is the standard that defines the establishing of a network “handshake” or how applications and programs interchange data. UDP is an...