Security add-ons that go beyond the basics — antivirus, intrusion protection, vulnerability scanning & firewalls.

An intrusion prevention system (IPS) sits inline with your traffic, continuously analyzing patterns for signs of known attack signatures and anomalous behavior — then automatically blocking malicious activity before it reaches your applications. This goes beyond a firewall’s “allow/deny by port” logic — IPS inspects the actual content and behavior of traffic.

GigeNET configures and tunes IPS for your specific environment, with alerting so your team knows what was blocked and why — not a black box that silently drops traffic with no visibility.

Vulnerability scanning systematically checks your server against known CVE databases — outdated software versions, misconfigured services, open ports that shouldn’t be, and weak credentials. GigeNET runs scans on a recurring schedule and provides a prioritized report: what was found, how severe it is, and what to do about it.

This is the same type of assessment many compliance audits require — running it proactively means there are no surprises when an actual audit happens.

Hardware firewalls sit at the network edge, filtering traffic before it reaches any of your servers — ideal for protecting multiple machines or a colocation deployment as a single unit. Software firewalls run on the server itself, giving granular, per-application control — useful when different services on the same machine need different rules.

Most environments benefit from both: a hardware firewall handling broad network-level rules, and software firewalls fine-tuning access at the server level. GigeNET can configure either or both as part of your setup — including the software firewalls available on request with every dedicated server.