Comprehensive Web Hosting Security Solutions for a Safer Online Presence
Website security breaches and malware infections, are becoming an everyday occurrence across the web. Too many web hosts do not provide their customers with the right tolls to protect their website and on-line reputation. If you get blacklisted by Google, it could take a long time to recover your rankings.
Our secure UK hosting platform protects you from damaging website attacks. We have embedded an amazing array of security tools into every web hosting package. These tools would cost hundreds of pounds on the open market, but we have provided these at no cost to you.
Just our CDN would cost £200 per year for the equivalent CDN from CloudFlare!
1 Tbps+ Anti-DDos Protection
Usually when a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is pointed towards your shared hosting or virtual private server (VPS), there is usually not much choice other than to ride it out until the attack stops.
However, this is not the case here, we have 1 Tbps+ anti-DDos protection at enterprise level. This protection covers you against most attacks and it will only filters out malicious traffic, meaning you can continue without interruptions.
Brute Force Protection
Attackers will often use brute force to try and guess your website’s administrator password. They use applications that cycle through common word combinations or trial and error (random letters and numbers) to try and break your credentials.
Our platform monitors log-in attempts to your website. It looks for suspected brute force automated requests. If detected, Google’s latest reCAPTCHA tools are launched,and if necessary, we block these attempts.
On average, we block in excess of seven million requests per day.
PCI Compliant Web Hosting
Is your business looking to accept, store and process debit/credit information? Then you ned to know if your hosting provider is compliant with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) which was established to cut credit card fraud.
Our platform consistently passes independent audits carried out by The PCI Security Standards Council which check for weaknesses where online criminals could possibly steal cardholder information.
Free Web Application Firewall
The best way to prevent security breaches is to stop criminals and hackers from gaining access to your code on the web server. The Patrick Internet Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects your data and software by looking for and blocking suspicious activity.
A widely used way to attack websites is to use your website forms to insert malicious code. Forms are not covered by traditional firewalls because they need to allow information to pass between the user and the web server.
Our WAF inspects every HTTP request for SQL injection, trojans, cross-site scripting, path traversal and many other types of on-line attack. It takes less than a millisecond to perform each inspection.
The WAF rule-set is updated regularly with the latest definitions for malicious requests.
Daily Malware Scanning
All of our WordPress, Windows and Linux shared hosting platforms are scanned everyday for the most frequent malware. We use a range of commercial tools alongside systems both of which have been developed for us, to expose potential threats. Malware can come in forms such as mail/spam daemons or web shells, all of which can harm your installation, opening the door for criminals to gain access to your site data, content and email.
You will find a detailed report of our scans in your Patrick Internet control panel. Similar services are available with other hosting providers, but you will pay a premium for it
If one of our scans does find malware, we can notify you by email immediately.
Customers using our WordPress hosting can also use our Checksum report as part of the WordPress Tools suite in your control panel. This report analyses your WordPress core and compares it to that of the official WordPress source to make sure it matches.
Email Antivirus Scanning
Every email and forwarder that you send or receive are subjected to advanced antivirus and anti-spam protection.
3 layers of inbound spam and virus scanning protection:
Network-level
We use commercial anti-spam blacklists from Spamhaus, Invaluement and Barracuda Networks to detect and reject mail from known spam networks.
Virus Scanning
All commonly known malware signatures are automatically rejected.
Content Based
All messages are scanned for spam-like characteristics and filtered out of the inbox into the your junk mail folder.
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