Posts Tagged ‘Website Protection’
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 Web Hosting, Website Protection, Website Security
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by FireHost Evangelist on July 10th, 2009
A recent article in BusinessWeek.com exposed the top 20 countries from which cybercrime originates. The United States topped the list with 23% share of malicious computer activity while China and Germany sit in second and third rank respectively.
Each of the twenty hacker activity hubs named in the report was evaluated based on the following criteria:
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Tags: cybercrime, Secure Web Hosting, Website Protection
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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 Web Hosting, Website Disaster Prevention, Website Protection, Website Security
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