How do you stay safe, not sorry?

You obviously want to be a successful business, not a statistic of Internet crime.

According to the Department of Trade and Industry, almost two thirds of British firms are affected by online crime. And it can be expensive. When you consider lost work, IT costs, compromised confidential bank records, customer data and more, it's easy to see how a serious incident could end up costing many thousands of pounds.

Windows Vista is our most secure and easy-to-use operating system. It offers:

• Enhanced security - Windows Vista includes user account control (which limits which websites, programs and files individuals can use and install) and Windows Defender (which blocks spyware).
• Built-in diagnostics and troubleshooting – Windows Vista Business can check disks and memory for potential failures. This helps make it easy for you to find out what's going wrong and make repairs, so you can keep your IT in-house and save time and money.
• A back-up system – Windows Vista lets you retrieve older versions of documents that you accidentally deleted or overwrote, and schedules automatic updates of your files and hard disk

Encrypt your laptop data

Every year, businesses across the UK lose thousands of laptops to theft or absentmindedness. To help keep your data safe, Windows Vista Ultimate, the most comprehensive edition of Vista, comes with Bitlocker Drive Encryption. This encodes the contents of your hard disk so that it's unreadable to unauthorised users, even if the hard disk is removed and plugged into another machine.

Automate your security routine with Microsoft

For optimum security, chose Windows Live OneCare. Designed from the ground up to work seamlessly with Windows Vista Business and the 2007 Microsoft Office system, OneCare makes sure all your PC maintenance and backups are automated, including virus and spyware, scanning, firewalls, tune-ups and file backups. You also benefit from free email, telephone and chat support.