So, while doing my habitual daily tech news browsing, I came across and article in the technology section of BBC news. It is an article regarding a report released by Symantec regarding malwares in circulation. Apparently, there are now more than 1,000,000 in circulation. Apparently a 136% increase from the first 6 months of 2007. Rather ominously, the article refers to an “increasingly profession digital criminal underground.”

This article serves to reinforce the need for security in not just your personal home computers, but also you dedicated servers. We provide a number of services to combat these attacks.

The first service I’ll mention is a managed service that we offer called Security and OS Updates. This service means that we will update your server/OS/kernel with the latest patches for security and stability when they are released. This keeps your system as up to date as possible to repel attacks. Also included in this service is a security audit of your server when requested.

Also, we offer another managed service called Server Side Virus Scanning. This is basically what it sounds as well as also covering requested security audits.

Another managed service to consider is Spam Filtering. For a domain that is covered with this service, spam is filtered out, which increases efficiency, as well as the fact that spam can contain malwares, which are thusly filtered out.

We can also offer a hardware solution, that being a firewall. We offer Cisco PIX 501 firewalls, which are a useful tool in blocking attacks and intrusions.

To read the BBC News article yourself, the link is as follows:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7340315.stm