Posts Tagged ‘Website Security’

Take Your Speeds To The Next Level With FireHost SSD Storage & Load Balancers

by FireHost Evangelist on June 7th, 2011

A little over a month ago, we announced the industry’s first PCI 2.0 compliant public Cloud Servers. Since then, we’ve focused whole-heartedly on ways to increase their performance.

Today, we happily announce SSD Storage & Zeus Powered Virtual Load Balancer add on features to you.

SSDFireHost SSD Storage

Solid state drives (SSD) offer preferable I/O (input/output) rates and access times that you just can’t achieve with a traditional, disk based storage system. Database and web application response times can increase by up to 60%, improving your users’ experience. A new concept in cloud hosting, early adopters of SSD storage enjoy the following benefits:

  • Enterprise-grade Dell EqualLogic SAN
  • Higher IOPS with 1/4th the latency of a SAS solution
  • Configured with RAID 50 Redundancy
  • Daily Snapshots
  • 30-Day Backup Retention
  • Configure a secure cloud server

FireHost Load Balancers

New Load Balancers powered by Zeus Technologies replace traditional hardware versions, to provide high-availability with more flexibility. Equipped with 1GB RAM, 1 processor, and 10GB hard drive (standard), virtual load balancers allow businesses to more effectively predict future capacity by analyzing the comprehensive historical data and usage trends through a convenient web-based interface. Other great load balancer features include:

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SSL Your Way to a Safer, More Successful Cart

by FireHost Evangelist on April 13th, 2011

SSL (secure socket layer) Technology is the web standard for securing and encrypting confidential PII (personally identifiable information) on eCommerce websites. Every piece of information transmitted on a https:// page is encrypted by an advanced cipher (often 128-bits or more) to help prevent unwanted parties from obtaining credit card numbers, home or work addresses, passwords, social security numbers, and even just your first and last name in raw format.

Consumers may not know the term SSL certificate, but they do increasingly recognize “secured by”, “protected by” and “verified by” badges on the eCommerce websites they visit.

Unfortunately, each web browser has the ability to determine where and how SSL certificates display, and some of the most popular web browsers suppress SSL badge visibility by decreasing the opacity or moving them to an inconspicuous location on the web page.

Extended Validation (EV) certificates (aka “The Green Bar” to consumers) combat browser suppression because they’re displayed front and center on every page where the SSL certificate has been installed correctly.

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New Mission Critical Headquarters For FireHost

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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Introducing Security View: Real-Time Reporting for Blocked Web Application Attacks

by FireHost Evangelist on February 1st, 2011

FireHost Security View

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.

Diego Maradona Should Not Trust Website Security to the “Hand of God”

by FireHost Evangelist on October 14th, 2009

handofgodEven if you’re not a football fan, you’ve probably seen news about Argentinean Coach Diego Maradona’s website being defaced by a Peruvian fan/hacker “Elite-Peruvian”.

The website’s intended facade was replaced with a tearful picture of Maradona under the caption “We made you cry” after the Argentine team defeated Peru 2 to 1 on Saturday.

Under Maradona’s image, the hacker included a Peruvian team photo proclaiming “For the biggest cry baby of all time. We didn’t win at the football, but we did on the web!” And as a final insult, Elite Peruvian threw in a soundtrack of Peruvian folk music playing in the background.

Details on how the hacker accessed Maradona’s website are forthcoming, but you can see images of the defacement on Graham Cluley’s blog. Referring back to Maradona’s 1986 FIFA World Cup quarter finals match, Mr. Cluley suggests Maradona seek a more concrete website security solution than the “Hand of God.”

We agree. For website security, FireHost may be the best option.