Security Features

Future Hosting provides an integrated approach to securing our systems with comprehensive protection to assure business continuity, and a level of flexibility and scalability to meet your individual business requirements.

McAfee® Total Protection Solutions - Protect your business from attacks, contain your costs, and minimize the time you spend on managing security - so you can run and grow your business. Total Protection Solutions are based on a consolidated approach that gives small and medium-sized businesses the immediate benefits of:

• Automatic Protection - Transparently updates itself daily, without end-user interaction; hassle-free security minimizes ongoing cost and management.
• Comprehensive Security in One Solution - Proactively blocks viruses, spyware, spam, phishing, hacker attacks, identity thieves, and other threats before they can install and compromise your systems.
• Integrated, Centralized Management - Single, web-based console for policy configuration and management, and remote monitoring and reporting.

McAfee® Host Intrusion Prevention® - Protect your assets with multiple proven methods, including a system firewall and both signature and behavioral analysis.

• Behavioral Protection - Protect against zero-day attacks without requiring updates. Prevent buffer overflow attacks, and shield your applications and data to prevent them from being compromised or used to attack other applications.
• Signature Protection - Accurately identify and block known hostile traffic and significantly reduce false positives. Includes vulnerability shielding, web server and database server protection, desktop application protection, and USB
removable-media blocking.
• Desktop Firewall - Proactively defend and control your desktop and laptops to prevent new threats that anti-virus alone cannot defend against.

Cisco ASA Firewalls - protect your server from internet threats via industry leading Cisco firewalls.Future Hosting’s new Cisco Firewall service utilizes the Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM). The FWSM is a high-speed, integrated firewall module for Cisco Catalyst 6500 switches that provides the fastest firewall data rates in the industry: 5-Gbps throughput, 100,000 CPS, and 1M concurrent connections. Up to four FWSMs can be installed in a single chassis, providing scalability to 20 Gbps per chassis. Based on Cisco PIX Firewall technology, the FWSM provides large enterprises and service providers with unmatched security, reliability, and performance.

The integration of these dedicated firewalls into our Catalyst 6500 infrastructure allows for seamless addition/change/removal of firewall services “on the fly.” Each dedicated firewall instance is allocated resources based upon port speed of the attached server. For reference, the firewall metrics for each firewall on the Firewall Service Module are similar to the stand alone Cisco ASA/Pix hardware appliance.

Monthly server bandwidth is recorded at the server switch port so any traffic blocked by the firewall services module will not count against your monthly allotments thereby reducing your costs and the need to pay for malicious traffic blocked.

Server Hardening
All Hybrid, Managed and Unmanaged cPanel/Plesk Virtual Private Servers include the following security setup. The security setup is completed automatically by the provisioning system during installation of your VPS.

• SIM - (System Integrity Monitor) - 24x7 Internal Monitoring of services.
• SPRI - (System Priority) - Sets priority to current processes being run on your server, decreasing load 10-25%.
• PRM - (Process Resource Monitor) - Monitors all resources used by all processes and if a process is being flooded or causing high load on the server, it is killed.
• BFD - (Brute Force Detection) - Detects brute force connections and automatically enters the offending IPs into the firewall to be blocked.
• CHKRootKIt – Simple script that detects software used by hackers. It scans once a day and emails the client if any suspicious scripts are found.
• Firewall Installation - APF (Advanced Policy Firewall) iptables based firewall and anti-dos rulesets.