Modern cybercriminals are out to do harm. Simple as that. They penetrate vulnerable websites, steal private customer information, and commit identity theft every day. Hacker tools and methods of attack have become more sophisticated and wider in scope in recent months.
USA Today reports:
SQL attacks take aim at the database layer of websites. They typically were manual attacks designed to pilfer customer data from merchant websites. But last June someone figured out how to automate the attacks, and use them to plant infections. By mid-June, daily attacks spiked to 25,000; by October they topped 450,000 a day.
Holly Stewart, IBM ISS threat response manager, says the infections take advantage of security flaws in cool website features, such as online-delivered video, music, photos, documents and work files.
Giant financial institutions and online merchants have put up strong defenses, says Phil Neray, vice president of security strategy at Guardium, a database security firm. “The same is not necessarily true of regional banks and credit unions, smaller online retailers and state government agencies.”
FireHost is in business to address website security needs of the “smaller guys” Mr. Neray mentions above. It’s imperative your company respond to the threat of cybercriminals swiftly and effectively because SQL attacks strike governments and credit card companies every day. FireHost can help your company avoid the negative spotlight.
SQL attacks are preventable when your website, email, databases, and other applications are hosted with a security-focused web hosting provider. We’ve taken industry-leading measures to make enterprise-level security attainable for every business because we know that the last thing you need to do with your time is mitigate a high-profile website attack on customer information.
Most hosting providers don’t invest the resources required to maintain a prevention-focused, secure hosting environment. If your company does business online however, you owe it to your customers and employees to make sure their most important information is protected.
Here’s just a sample of what puts FireHost secure web hosting in a class of its own:
Network Layer Security
FireHost runs dual Sonicwall internet security devices, providing firewall redundancy for every client. This layer safegaurds websites, emails, and databases from unauthorized intrusions, like SQL attacks.
Application Protection
We also run a web application firewall to close the holes within your website’s applications, the entry-point for SQL attacks.
Vulnerability Monitoring
FireHost partners with McAfee to provide you with web-based website vulnerability auditing and remediation mangement, completing scans every fifteen minutes.
Register here to have a FireHost Security Agent perform a vulnerability report for your website. We will contact you shortly with the eye-opening results.
According to a report by SANS.org, OS vulnerabilities are patched more quickly than client-side vulnerabilities on average. In addition, some client-side software remains unpatched or is not updated throughout it’s lifespan. As a result, hackers have found exploiting popular client-side applications such as Adobe PDF Reader, QuickTime, Adobe Flash, and Microsoft Office to be quite lucrative.
Two and a half years after retail giant TJX Companies, Inc (parent company to TJ Maxx, Marshalls, and Home Goods) experienced one of the 
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financial services and transportation sectors, information security was cited most often as the top priority.
