The Gartner consultancy has recommended the installation of personal firewalls, at least, across all corporate laptops and ideally all desktops as well. Gartner's recommendation, reported by TechWeb, responds to the growing number of vulnerabilities in Windows operating systems. This means that companies constantly have to apply the patches released to workstations and laptops in particular.

Gartner has also brought attention to the delay in applying these patches. On average, companies take from between six and 18 months to apply patches after they are released and for this reason, corporate computers are continuously running unnecessarily high risks. Gartner believes that installing personal firewalls, firstly in laptops and then desktops, should be a priority for companies to reduce unlimited exposure to the Internet and prevent unauthorized running of executable files Internet.

INFOTECS GmbH offers a security suite under the ViPNet brand name, designed to set up virtual private networks (VPNs) with build-in personal firewall and other major features. In addition, INFOTECS has another stand-alone product - TermiNET, which is a Personal Firewall, designed to keep your personal data and privacy safe from Internet hackers and data thieves while connected to the Internet, browsing the web or accessing other internet. TermiNET software is an ideal security solution for SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) and home users who wish to connect to the Internet securely but do not have the resources to support a large security infrastructure.