This section of the site concentrates on Security related aspects of your computer network. As security is an ever changing aspect to computing and combine that its higher importance than some other areas, we are concentrating here on providing generic information - that is, advice and information that should stand the test of time. Anything produced in this section will of course be updated to reflect the current situation when the need arises, but is less so than other more specific information that you can get elsewhere on the web. Our Firewall Links page provides you with some of the other areas on the net that can give you more specific information should you need it.

The Firewalls & Security section of this site does contain a fair amount of useful information, all the relevent main section headings are listed below. Nearly all of them are then seperated into sub sections of their own.

The links below have been placed into an order that some might find more beneficial to work through in the order that they are given.

Firewalls Introduction (Comprises 1 section across 1 page)
What is a Firewall ? (Comprised of 1 section across 2 pages)
Under the Bonnet Series (Comprises 4 sections across 15 pages)
Firewall related links (Comprises 1 section across 1 page)

Moving away from firewalls and into the more general area of security for your computer, a new section is being developed and will be anounced over the coming weeks. In the meantime Brighton Computers Website has some handy maintenance tips for your computer that are security related in terms of viruses , trojans, worms etc.