Months in the making, our new corporate office embodies FireHost’s stance on security and takes our commitment to secure, contiguous support a step further. The following precautions contribute to the facility’s mission critical infrastructure and hospital-grade redundancy, designed to help us serve our customers to the very fullest under a variety of circumstances.

• Fully operational internal data center
• Backup generators
• Multiple Internet providers
• Secure keycard access with role based control
• Video surveillance

The new headquarters provides a solid foundation for us to provide unwavering, managed support 24x7x365. “This space is locked down tight and impervious to power outages. It’s comfortable, functional, and it will help us serve our customers more reliably,” explains Chris Drake, FireHost CEO.

Demand for a larger, more industrial corporate office is driven by our recent growth. The new facility has capacity to accommodate our current team and the new, FireHost employees we anticipate hiring over the next several years.

Here’s a few pictures of the new FireHost HQ.

At FireHost we are continually striving to make the secure hosting services that we provide to our customers even better, so that they can have the luxury of running securely and worry-free around the clock.

We are happy to announce our latest addition to the MyFireHost customer portal – Security View. Today is just the beginning of an impressive line up new features and enhancements that we’ll be integrating into our service in 2011.

Through Security View, you will have a front row seat to monitor your blocked attacks, in real-time with charts and graphs that help you visualize how frequently hackers attempt to breach your secure servers, websites and web-based applications.

Founder and CEO of FireHost, Chris Drake voices his concern for web security and the fundamental need for the new enhancements, “Most companies don’t realize how many attackers attempt to breach their websites and applications on a daily basis. We are so confident in our ability to block cybercrime that we’re opening the curtain and inviting our customers to see how well we protect their websites. Security View exposes the reality of cybercrime and lets our customers know we’re really looking out for them.”

Here a few of the key features Security View provides:

• View blocked application layer attacks (SQL Injections, XSS Attacks, Email Hoarding Events, Directory Traversals, and more)
• Sort and filter malicious activity by hour, day, week, month, or year
• View attack origins by region in real time, for each of your IPs
• Customize views to see attacks on your entire network, all the way down to an individual IP

Security View is a standard feature available to all customers with Secure Servers virtualized with VMWare. The next time you login to MyFireHost, simply navigate the tab labeled “Security” and check it out.

In just the last few months, Microsoft has announced two vulnerabilities discovered in their popular Office application suite. Specifically, these vulnerabilities affect Excel and PowerPoint, and both flaws allow hackers to install malicious software or even hijack a computer completely. For more information about resolving these two vulnerabilities, read the full report by Computer World.

This is a good example of a vulnerability in programs on your computer, and similar holes exist for web applications. As we’ve explained previously, web application vulnerabilities found in Drupal or WordPress can just as easily be used by malicious hackers to exploit your website and customers. It’s important to take an active role in securing your website, with secure hosting such as FireHost.

Although every application will contain vulnerabilities of some kind, you can still guard against the exploitation of your website’s applications by malicious hackers. FireHost protects your company and valued customers with industry-leading security, including sophisticated web application firewalls to prevent hackers from exploiting the applications running your website.

The value of making your customers feel secure when dealing with your company website is immeasurable. Discover the difference FireHost secure web hosting will make for your company, visit FireHost.com and contact a FireHost Agent today.

These new strict data loss prevention measures include file encryption, digital rights management, storage policies, data classification, and new staff security procedures. For the interesting specifics, click here.

Although your company may not deal in national secrets, your company should consider similar measures to prevent data loss, which can prevent the loss of confidential information, trade secrets, and vital business and customer records.

Protecting your business online means you have consciously taken a look at the cost risk and business risk of having all your data compromised. Can you afford to have your lead-generating website down for a period of time? Is there a competitor that would benefit from knowing your company’s intellectual property? Can you afford to have your clients’ entrusted data hacked and made public, or worse exploited?

With growing eCommerce and so many companies using Content Management Solutions and Customer Relationship Management solutions, protecting your company in its industry requires industry-leading security measures. Some advanced security measures are not found with over 90% of hosting providers including advanced web application firewalls, dynamic intrusion detection, and sophisticated traffic analysis software. Proper security hardware, software, dedicated personnel and proactive protection prevents malicious hackers from stealing information from you and your clients.

Another part of protecting your business online is reviewing your business continuity plan. What happens when a fire occurs in your building destroying your local computers or servers, or a natural disaster or a virus takes out a vital source of information? You can protect your records, files, and databases using FireVault, which encrypts and backs up your data from any number of computers and servers to a secure, cloud sever in the U.S. or UK.

Be leary of hosting companies that provide only hacker reports as their measure of protection. Your business cannot afford to wait until after a breach occurs to be told there’s a problem. The damage is done. Real secure hosting protects you proactively, mitigating and eliminating attacks starting at the HTTP level against your data before they get to your servers. The consequences of inaction could be insurmountable for businesses of any size. Online threats require businesses of all sizes to ensure they have secure web hosting.

If you’re not familiar, a content management system (CMS) is software that tracks, manages and displays every piece of content on your website. Content can include simple text, photos, music, videos, documents, or anything else you want on your website.

Joomla is one of the most popular website building and management software platforms due in large part to it’s ease-of-use and deep extensibility. Joomla is suitable for a wide variety of applications like powering corporate websites, online magazines, e-commerce portals, and small business websites around the world. This is just a handful of the popular websites powered by Joomla.

• IHOP (Restaurants) – http://www.ihop.com
• Harvard University – http://gsas.harvard.edu
• MTV Networks Quizilla  – http://www.quizilla.com
• L.A. Weekly – http://www.laweekly.com

The major advantage of an open source CMS like Joomla is that it’s free and it requires almost zero technical skill or knowledge to manage. Security can be a key disadvantage for open source solutions however because open source applications are often targets for exploitation by hackers or virus deployments.

FireHost’s secure web hosting environment helps Joomla users sleep peacefully at night by delivering advanced web application firewall (WAF) protection. Additionally, installing Joomla on a FireHost-managed hosting solution is a simple one-click process that empowers your company to start building a dynamic website immediately.

It couldn’t be easier to get started. With Joomla, nearly anyone can build and manage a site. With FireHost’s secure web hosting environment, Joomla users can have a secure, worry-free site built on a great open-source platform. More information on secure Joomla hosting is available on our website, or you can contact a FireHost consultant now.