Bay ridge Security Consulting (BRSC) provides security consulting services to a

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Bay ridge Security Consulting (BRSC) provides security consulting services to a wide range of businesses, individuals, schools and organizations. Because of its reputation and increasing demand for its services, BRSC has partnered with a local school to hire students close to graduation to assist them on specific projects. This not only helps BRSC with the projects, but also provides real world experience to students who are interested in the security field.

Premiere professional landscaping (PPL) is a statewide residential and commercial landscaping and lawn service. PPL wants to completely change its network infrastructure after being the victim of several recent attacks. Because they currently have a small IT staff, they have contracted with BRSC to make recommendations and install the new equipment. First however they have asked BRSC to give a presentation to their executive staff about network security.

Question 1.) PPL has been working with BRSC and is debating if they should use all-in-one network security appliances or separate devices (firewall, Internet content filters, and so on). Because they appreciated your first presentation, they want to know your opinion. Create a memo that outlines the advantages and disadvantages of each approach, and give your recommendation. PPL has been working with BRSC and is debating if they should use all-in-one network security appliances or separate devices (firewall, Internet content filters, and so on). Because they appreciated your first presentation, they want to know your opinion. Create a memo that outlines the advantages and disadvantages of each approach, and give your recommendation.

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Advantages of using all-in-one network security appliances

1. It is easy to manage since we only have to manage one appliance.

2.Easy to configure

3. Saves a lot of money

4. It simplifies the architecture, makes configuration easier and, therefore, actually reduces the risk of failures.

Disavantages of using all-in-one network security appliances

1. Gives impact on performance and speed.

2. When its breaks, everything breaks.

Advantages of using separate security appliances

1. Dedicated appliances give more granularity, control, and more processing power just to concentrate on a particular aspect.

2. If one devices fails, it won't make much impact on other devices.

Disadvantages of using separate security appliances

1. It needs a lot of money to purchase separate security appliance.

2. Configuration and maintenance is not as easily as all-in-one security appliance.

So, after comparing both, I would recommend all-in-one security appliance for below reasons:-

1. It saves a lot of money compare to separate alliances from purchase to maintenance.

2. Though it impacts on performance loss in speed when 100% of its features are being used, but it's more like 10% and since PPL is small sized company, it won't impact more.

3. It is not easy to break all-in-one security device, so there won't be much risk to use it for PPL

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