LAN networks help businesses maintain greater control over external threats and internal misuse.  By using a centrally based and centrally monitored LAN network to deliver Internet and email access, your client companies will be able to vastly improve their IT security and perhaps enhance employee productivity.

When you discuss the option of installing a LAN network with your client talk to him/her about the following issues:

  • Discuss how providing Internet through a LAN network secures the external network connection to the Internet by using sophisticated firewall and intrusion detection features.
  • Note that a LAN network provides senior management with a more effective tool for monitoring and enforcing company policies on appropriate use of the resource.
  • Point out how LAN network based Internet access can explicitly grant or deny access to specific users and Web sites. These steps will ease small business owners’ concerns about employees accessing sites with adult-oriented material or other “offensive,” non work-related content. Your solution may also be able to enforce time of day/day of week restrictions, as well as application-specific restrictions.
  • Often the strongest motivator for installing a LAN network is the fact that Internet access logs can be monitored periodically. Communicating this monitoring capability to employees  provides an incredibly strong deterrent to using the Internet inappropriately.  
  • While you certainly don’t want to give legal advice to your clients, you can provide extra value by helping your clients devise a company policy on appropriate use of Internet access and e-mail.
Bottom Line on LAN Networks
Incorporating a LAN network delivery system for Internet and email access makes sense from a security and productivity point of view.  Pointing out the obvious benefits of using a LAN network should more than offset any objections your client has to doing it.  IT security is a huge issue in today’s work environment and one of the key ways to boost it is to provide Internet access via a LAN network.

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