Posts Tagged ‘Website Protection’
by FireHost Evangelist on April 5th, 2011
We’re pleased to announce that the entire FireHost team is now operating out of our new, mission critical headquarter facility in Richardson, TX.
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
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Tags: Application Protection, mission critical office space, Secure Cloud Hosting, secure managed hosting, secure servers, Website Protection, Website Security
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by FireHost Evangelist on April 6th, 2010
Imagine waking up tomorrow and having your water cut off. It would be annoying to deal with, but not devastating. Life goes on. But what if you didn’t have electricity? Definitely inconvenient. You can’t turn on a lamp or watch TV, but at least your iPhone works. You could still access the information superhighway, so all is well.
Now envision how you would feel if you woke up one morning and your website wasn’t working at all. It doesn’t load or the homepage has been replaced with an offensive message — or even a warning from Google that this site is no longer secure. That’s right, you’ve been hacked and your website has been kicked off Google.
Think this can’t happen to you? It’s actually not uncommon. It happens to small businesses every day when their website gets attacked one too many times for Google’s liking. Mberry, a small business based in Tempe, Arizona, is one of those businesses. This innovative company that sells the very cool, very fun “mberry” tablets that make everything you eat taste oh so sweet for 30 minutes. Mberry had a rather sour experience when their site was banned from Google.
Mberry’s saga started about a year ago when their site was hacked – not once, not twice, but three times in two months. They rely on their site as a main portal for their revenues. Having their site down multiple times going through the process of getting it cleaned up and back online was costly, annoying and damaging to their brand. But it wasn’t until they got the boot from big daddy Google, that things really got much worse.
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Tags: Kicked Off Google, mBerry, Secure Cloud Hosting, Website Hacking, Website Protection
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by FireHost Evangelist on August 18th, 2009
Two and a half years after retail giant TJX Companies, Inc (parent company to TJ Maxx, Marshalls, and Home Goods) experienced one of the largest data breaches in history, the firm is still paying. This time, the settlement provides $9.7MM across 41 states to help protect consumers from payment card negligence. One quarter of those funds are devoted to creating a national fund that will investigate future data breaches.
In reality, the latest sum TJX has to pay is small potatoes compared to the capital outlay the retailer has made since 2007 to mitigate the security breach that exposed 45 million credit and debit card numbers. When the leak was discovered, TJX set aside $107MM to deal with the fallout and the expenditures to date are in that range. In two of the largest settlements, they’ve paid $24MM to MasterCard and $41MM to Visa banks. In addition, TJX has been ordered to undergo costly external audits every other year for 20 years by the FTC.
Is it 100% possible for companies to avoid costly and negative public facing situations such as this?
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Tags: Confidential Data, Prevent Hackers, Secure Cloud Hosting, Website Protection, Website Security
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by FireHost Evangelist on March 12th, 2009
FireHost knows the importance and value of your website, your databases, and the customers they service. That’s why we implemented “The Arizona Plan” for website protection in 2008. The decision to expand FireHost to an Arizona Data Center was easy. Phoenix is an atmospheric safe-haven with over 200 cloudless days each year, and from the image, you can see that this area is historically not susceptible to natural disaster. 
Now that FireHost has physical operations in two, strategically located data centers, we’re able to protect your website with an even more secure hosting environment than before.
- R1Soft Barebones Backup service subscribers’ files are encrypted and transported over 1,000 miles away to our secondary DC in Scottsdale every day.
- Every secure web hosting client has peace of mind that website and database files have redundancy built in as a standard feature of the secure web hosting package.
- FireHost offers secure hosted exchange customers unprecedented email redundancy and security because the contents of your inbox are completely synced in both data center locations. We maintain copies of your communications in two, safe locations more than a thousand miles apart.
Website disaster prevention and protection starts with investing in a professional, secure web hosting and online backup plan. FireHost fits that description working every day to ensure that if an asteroid hits Dallas or aliens invade Scottsdale, your website data will be just fine.
Tags: Backup Data Online, Offsite Data Backup, Secure Cloud Hosting, Website Disaster Prevention, Website Protection, Website Security
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