cheap and easy to set up, but sometimes they just don't get the job done, especially for more sophisticated requirements. And "big iron" products will put too big a dent in most small business budgets. Fortunately there are Open Source alternatives. Jim Hubbard...

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is no doubt we need a ever more layered approach - Anti-Virus software, Spam filters, Spyware detection software. The base layer however is still the most important and this is a firewall. In his recent article about the LEAF project, Jim Hubbard summed up...