Diamond Sidestones

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Cleaning After A Flood

Cleaning a flooded home requires professional services. There are many situations that may cause the flooding. Whether the water damage was small or extensive, flooding creates some emotional discomfort to some people while others will try to rectify the damage themselves which may lead to getting hurt or increased  damage as a result of the absence of training, experience and the necessary tools and equipments meaning inadequate restoration.

We want to labour on your behalf if your home requires urgent cleaning after flooding. Everyone would like to avoid floods at all costs but they happen anyway. It may have happened for the first time for you. The best situation would be by clean water such as rain water or plumbing water. But even the clean water has potential to ruin your dry wall and carpet in a short while. It is therefore important to get professional help.

There is a possibility of the flooding being caused by raw sewage water and this requires you seek our help. The main problem with that is the fact that the sewage water contains pathogenic microorganisms such as bacteria that can cause serious infectious diseases.

Why should you call us for your home cleaning after floods?

  • Though it may be your first case of flooding, for us it is what we always deal with. We have the requisite training and certification to handle such situations. We have done it for others with great results and will do it for you too.
  • We are available at any time of the day or night al days of the year and respond within one hour of your call, in addition, we guarantee you of effectiveness of our work for a whole year.
  • We have the following qualifications
    • I.I.C.R.C. (Institute of Inspection, Cleaning, Restoration and Certification) which ensures we maintain the standards of the industry
    • Members of IAQA (Indoor Air Quality Association), which means we do a thorough job after the draining to prevent mold infestation.
    • All our staffs are fully certified including the indoor environment consultant and master restorer. All the technical persons are also certified so that we can offer you the best service.

 

 

 

Monday, March 19, 2012

Strength in Defense Depth Strategy of Protecting Your Network

Defence in depth is a strategy for security that focuses on having multiple layers of protection for network and computers. If one layer is breached, there are more layers of protection in place that a hacker must go through before they get to your network of computers. The hacker will thus give up and move to another target or they be detected before they achieve their goal.


How to apply defense depth strategy when securing a wireless network

 

  • Install a VPN account to a wireless router that is VPN enabled 

VPNs allow for encryption of all traffic entering and leaving your network. They allow you to create an encrypted tunnel that can protect your privacy, provide anonymous browsing and have other great features as well. The more sophisticated VPN providers allow you to install their VPN service on your VPN-capable internet router so that every device on your network is protected. Since the router does all the encryption and decryption work, you don't have to install VPN clients or reconfigure any of your PCs or mobile devices. The protection is virtually transparent; you won't notice anything except for some delay caused by the encryption and decryption process. This thus enhances wireless network security.

 

  • Secure DSL cable with a firewall router

You should add an inexpensive wired or wireless router with built-in firewall capability to provide you with an additional outer-layer of protection. Enable the router's "Stealth Mode" to help make your computers less visible to attackers in order to secure your wireless network.

  • Enable and configure your wireless or wired router’s and computer’s firewalls

Firewalls may prevent inbound attacks to your wireless networks. They secure a wireless network in an effective manner.

  • Install antivirus and use strong passwords for all network devices and encrypt your files at disk or OS level.

This helps in securing a wireless network in a great deal.