The Need
In today's business environment organisations networks and servers are no longer
serving just simple websites, most now carry out a variety of business critical functions such as processing of confidential company and client data, hosting email
and carrying out financial transactions. Traditionally, hosting providers
made no provision for server security or protection against a vast range
of threats and internet born hazards.
 Alarmingly
most server providers will provision
servers without even basic software firewalling leaving security as squarely
the responsibility of the client.The main disadvantage of this approach is that the first (and often only) line of
defence
is a simple software firewall or at best, a poorly maintained firewall. Critical
systems are often left unprotected and are an easy target for hackers, crackers
and a myriad of worms, trojans and viruses.
The Problem
The risks to business of ignoring security are simply too great yet many
businesses still use providers who cannot or will not take security
seriously.
Most server providers will supply unmanaged servers only. This means that the exact moment the client takes delivery
of the server the service provider practically abandons the client and abdicates themselves from
all responsibility for the security and safety of the client and the server.
Often the only recourse the client has is the offer from the service provider of
a complete reinstall of the server operating system. To rub salt in the wounds,
the vast majority will also
bill the client for the re-installation "work" carried
out and even potentially ban them from their network for running insecure servers.
Most service providers that do offer basic firewall products
will stop short of offering to properly manage firewalls and server security or to keep a server
updated with the latest security patches.
The SolutionsAt Secura Hosting Ltd we do things differently; security
is our number one priority. We have been securing windows based servers
since NT4 and IIS2 and have worked closely with Microsoft in isolating,
identifying and dealing with threats to Windows based servers.
We provide our clients with
a full range of market leading security solutions to provide optimum security
using the best network and server defence systems available. We realise
that datacentre security is at best a bewildering array of choices that most
businesses can't be expected to know the implications of.
Our triple security platform provides CleanBandwidth™
directly to client firewalls followed by our industrial strength SecuraGuard™
firewalls. Our CleanBandwidth™ feed is an industry first and is designed to filter
out a huge array of threats to servers before they even reach a client
firewall/s. Finally we provide SecuraShield™,
another unique offering only available to our clients. SecuraShield™
combines fast server based security and proactive patch management to ensure
that the last line of defence is particularly effective.
The Result
All of this goes a long way towards providing one of the most effective
secure managed hosting platforms in the world. Secura Hosting Ltd have
combined the best firewall platforms with our renowned skill and expertise plus
our unique service offerings such as CleanBandwidth™ and SecuraShield™
in order to give our clients the very best security solutions available in the
industry.
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