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Cybersecurity / Firewall

Knowing what flows
across your network.

Without monitoring, your company’s traffic stays a blind spot. Avepto watches your firewall, spots the unusual and explains what matters.

  • Fortinet
  • pfSense
  • Ubiquiti UniFi
  • TP-Link Omada

Installed or managed firewall

A managed firewall means knowing what it protects, at all times.

Before

Firewall installed once

Configuration Set at install, never revisited
Rules Accumulated without review
Firmware Updated occasionally
VPN Shared password, never rotated
Logs Collected, rarely reviewed
Documentation Partial, to be rebuilt
Monitoring Yet to be set up
Incidents Detected too late
After

Actively managed firewall

Configuration Audited, simplified, justified
Rules Documented, reviewed regularly
Firmware Tracked, tested, scheduled
VPN WireGuard / IPsec, MFA, per-user access
Logs Centralised, reviewed, alerted
Documentation Kept up to date
Monitoring Active 24/7 on events
Incidents Detected, contained, explained

Three protection tiers

Three protection tiers,
from the router to a managed firewall.

For an SME of 5 to 80 people with a NAS, remote work and internal apps, the router shipped by your ISP isn’t enough. And a professional firewall, with no one to operate it, barely is either.

Criterion
Tier 1
ISP router
Router provided by your ISP
Tier 2
Pro firewall
Hardware installed, not operated
Tier 3
Managed firewall
Same hardware, operated
Application filtering
No
Yes (basic)
Yes, tuned for your business
VLAN segmentation
Limited
Yes
Designed, documented, verified
Secure VPN
PPTP / L2TP
Configurable IPsec
IPsec or WireGuard, MFA, per-user access
Isolated guest WiFi
Often no
Possible
Configured and tested
Firmware updates
Auto, opaque
Manual, forgotten
Scheduled and tested
Log review
Not planned
On you
Done at Avepto
Incident alerts
Not planned
To configure
Received and handled by Avepto
Rule documentation
Not provided
Rare
Delivered and kept up to date

Real SME cases from French-speaking Switzerland

Five profiles.
One method.

Trustee firm 12 staff

Fiduciary office

Financial data, client access, remote work for staff. Strict segmentation, logging, per-user VPN.

central Geneva
Medical 8 staff

Medical practice

Patient data, confidentiality requirements, controlled backups. Strict isolation of the guest network.

Vaud
Remote work 32 staff

Distributed company

Staff in Switzerland, neighbouring France, sometimes travelling. MFA VPN, per-user access, instant revocation.

multi-site
Multi-site 55 staff

Multi-site company

Two or three permanently connected offices. Encrypted site-to-site tunnels, unified security policy, central traffic monitoring.

GE and VD
NAS / server 40 staff

SME with on-prem server

ERP, NAS and in-house apps hosted on site. Inbound filtering, controlled remote access, traffic monitoring.

Satigny
Your SME

Your situation is unique.

Every SME has its own constraints. Let’s meet and talk about your network as it is, not as it should be.

Anonymised typical day

Every day your network is probed, tested, scanned.
Just another day.

Port scans, passwords tried in bursts, addresses already flagged elsewhere. Your firewall forwards every event to a central analysis that cross-checks, decides and blocks within seconds.

Client perimeter log UTC+01
02:14 Port sweep across the public address, source isolated at once Reconnaissance
04:53 Passwords tried in bursts on a remote access, blocked at threshold Brute force
07:38 Address already flagged elsewhere on the network, denied before its first request Shared reputation
10:22 Unusual traffic toward an internal host, session refused by current policy Filtering
13:09 Connection spike from a single IP block, temporary rule pushed to the firewall Automatic action
Auto-blocked 1,240 Actions required 0

Frequently asked

Your network,
explained plainly.

A question that isn’t here? The audit answers it directly.

Not necessarily. Avepto replaces network equipment only if it is obsolete, no longer supported by the vendor, or can no longer meet your needs. In that case we say so explicitly, with the costs spelled out, and we steer you toward a solution we know well. The rest of the time, we make the most of what you have.

As a rule, no. Significant changes are scheduled outside business hours, agreed with you, so your team isn’t interrupted. A planned cutover typically takes 15 to 30 minutes, and we tell you the exact window in advance.

The virtual private network (VPN) gives per-user named access, protected and logged. When someone leaves the company, their remote access is revoked immediately, closing a door that’s often forgotten.

Yes. The guest WiFi sits on a separate virtual local area network (VLAN), with no access to the internal network or the storage server (NAS), and strict rules on outbound traffic. Avepto re-checks this isolation periodically so a visitor or an unknown device cannot reach your data.

Network segmentation means separating offices, servers, printers, guest WiFi and connected objects (IoT) into distinct zones. If one workstation is compromised, the attack stays inside its zone and doesn’t automatically reach the rest of the network. It’s a simple, effective internal barrier.

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and the reading that goes with them.

The services most often deployed alongside this one, and the field notes published by our specialists.

Next step

Your network, monitored and managed by Avepto.

We meet, we walk through your network together, and you leave with useful recommendations. What happens next is up to you, no commitment.

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