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�@Our shared web hosting servers are 'hardened' against hackers with
proprietary tools, OS tweaks, network procedures and constant monitoring.

We have System Administrators that are dedicated to web hosting security.
They insure that we are current with all OS security patches. We have very
high level software maintenance contracts with our Vendors (SGI, Cisco,
Foundry) so that we are sure to have the latest patches and support staff
available to us 24x7 for fixes.

Security audits are run regularly on our servers. This supplements our
internal efforts to keep our servers as protected as possible.  We do record
and monitor illegal port accesses both on the networking hardware and the
servers. We log all accesses to our servers which allows us to check the
accesses for intrusion attempts. We also deploy ankle-biters and honeypots
so that we are notified of any active attacks.

For Denial of Service attacks, a new procedure that our System
Administrators implemented called "ipfilterd" allows us to block attacks
directed at a single web site on a server rather than a network level giving
us better granularity. "spamd" is another tool used to minimize the effect
of attacks on the system - specifically email. Blocking spam makes us less
of a target for those hackers that target Spammers.