Small & Medium Business

Security: A business imperative

From company secrets to customers lists; employee records to corporate espionage; in today’s information-driven economy, data has become the lifeblood of your organization.

Protecting this data is a business imperative, but with 60,000 new malware threats emerging every day, the traditional anti-virus only approach isn’t enough.

Enter Layered Security

Traditional anti-virus programs work by blocking known threats  – but stopping known bad guys means they have to get caught first. To stop unknown threats, we flip the paradigm: instead of just blocking known malicious programs, we stop all unapproved programs from running.

That’s why we pair our powerful Anti-Virus with Anti-Executable, a whitelisting application. A whitelist is a list of applications that are authorized to launch on a computer. If a program isn’t on the list, it will not run. This has the added benefit of not only blocking malicious software, but also unauthorized, system-heavy or just plain unnecessary programs from running.

Finally, the ultimate layer of security: full system restoration.  It is often easier to simply wipe and restore a computer to its original configuration than to try and diagnose highly specific misconfiguration. However, this is a time consuming process, which may put a machine out of commission for hours to days depending on your IT team’s bandwidth.

That’s where Faronics’ patented Deep Freeze reboot to restore technology comes in. Deep Freeze restores a computer to a set configuration on every reboot. Any changes or problems that result from malicious software, misconfiguration or just plain old user error are undone when the computer is restarted.

One Solution: Multiple Implementation Options

Every business is different, and has different needs and requirements from its information technology. Even within the same company, different users have different requirements of their machines and different levels of permission to access certain resources.

Faronics understands this, which is why our Layered Security solutions are designed for different environments.

Layered Security in flexible environments:

In most environments, there are users who need both security protection and the flexibility to change their system’s configuration, retain specific settings, etc. More senior employees are frequently more trusted to administrate more of their own computers, and IT must provide solutions that allow that.

The Faronics Layered Security Bundle combines our Anti-Virus software with Anti-Executable. The powerful duo can be deployed across all your machines and then centrally managed from the Faronics Core, the Faronics central management platform.

Layered Security in static environments:

The Faronics Total Layered Security Bundle adds Deep Freeze to Anti-Virus and Anti-Executable for rock-solid protection of your workstation configurations. If any security threats manage to get past the first two layers of security, they run into the brick wall of Deep Freeze that restores the computers IT-specified configuration on every restart. This also removes users changes – intentional or not, giving IT complete control over how the machines they administer. User files are redirected to a protection part of the drive where they are retained.

The average desktop costs a company $4650 per year to own and operate

In addition to the cost of the physical hardware, software and updates, there are the costs of supporting and maintaining each machine as well as the energy costs required to run it. Faronics helps your business significantly cut costs by reducing how much power machines use as well as the number, length, and complexity of support requests.

The average help desk cost per contact is estimated to be $23.09

Support calls cost your company in two ways – there’s the time the IT person has to spend dealing with and resolving the issue, and then there’s the opportunity cost of what that IT person could have been working on instead.

Faronics Deep Freeze

With Faronics Deep Freeze, the majority of support calls can be mitigated with a simple restart. Deep Freeze “freezes” your system’s configuration and then it restores it to this point on every restart. Faronics Deep Freeze can reduce support tickets up to 63%, letting IT teams focus on other projects and building technological capital and capacity.

Over a year, a typical desktop PC can consume up to $100 in energy costs and 870-kilowatt hours of electricity!

Faronics Power Save

The power costs of running computers adds up quickly ($10,000 a year for a 100-person company!)

Power management tools help reduce this cost – but many don’t take into account users; executing power-saving features in the middle of important tasks. When this happens, any savings made on power are lost again in lost productivity.

Faronics Power Save is a power management solution designed to not interfere with users. Monitoring user and machine activity closely, Power Save won’t act unless it’s sure that the computer isn’t in use. In addition, Power Save offers unique reporting functionality allowing you to track how much power (and money) is being saved.

Whether it’s just about reducing costs, or to make your business “greener”, Power Save is an invaluable tool to reduce your gross energy consumption without sacrificing performance.

Advanced Training Solutions

With increasing dependency on computers, adequate training of employees is increasingly important.

Faronics Insight is a comprehensive computer lab and training management solution. Insight enables instructors to take complete control of the classroom. Lock out computers or blank screens to get the class’s attention; screen-share the instructors screen, or selectively screen-share between classroom participants; open applications or websites on every computer to jumpstart the training process and block or close distracting or unnecessary applications

Complete System Control

Workstation flexibility comes with a risk.

WINSelect takes complete control over the Windows user environment allowing you to lock down a computer’s functions at an extremely granular level. Whether it’s having a machine only run one program, for example a kiosk, or enforcing data-security by preventing the use of data-storage devices, WINSelect gives administrators complete control over what a user can and can’t do.

IT Asset Management

With so many different hardware configurations, software configurations, and licenses all around your network, for IT, simply knowing what they’re working with can be a very arduous task.

Faronics system profiler allows you to instantly know the set up for every single computer in your network. Whether its hardware specs to plan upgrades, or monitoring licenses to ensure compliance, System Profiler arms IT with the knowledge they need to do their work quickly and effectively.