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1. Best Practices for Securing Your Web Server
   By Robert Cott, PEER 1 A secure web server provides a protected foundation for hosting your web applications, and web server configuration plays a critical role in your web application's security. Poorly configured virtual directories, a common mistake, can lead to unauthorized access. A forgot ...
2. Busting the Myths About Network Security
   Article provided by ControlScan©Network SecurityKnowledge is power… so what happens when hackers know more about your network’s security than you do. Many online businesses have a false sense of security because they subscribe to numerous myths about their network’s securi ...
3. Compromise Detection and Data Integrity
   By Payam Tarverdyan Chychi, PEER 1 The third in our series of good security practices, this piece discusses compromise detection and data integrity to help you identify when you've been hacked. WHAT IS A ROOTKIT?A rootkit is a piece of software used by hackers that modifies certain key system f ...
4. Computer Security Today
   By Brian Beaudoin, PEER 1 This piece discusses some relatively simple local security measures you can take on your server to prevent a hacker from getting in and exploiting your system. This article covers some of the very basic considerations, but is in no way meant to be an inclusive set of in ...
5. DNS Smurf Attacks - The Lowdown
   By Scott Clark, PEER 1 About seven years ago, “Smurf attacks” were all the rage. A “Smurf attack” describes a type of attack in which the attacker exploits a system or service that responds to a small amount of data with a much larger amount of data – the bigger t ...
6. Hosting at Home: The Pros and Cons
   By Zvi Grauer, PEER 1 ContributorQuite a few of us have an idea or a personal project worth sharing with the world through hosting on the Web. Most of us also have an older computer which is either collecting dust in the closet/attic/garage, or is in a lonely corner, waiting for someone to use i ...
7. Implementing and Managing a Firewall
   By Alex Soo, PEER 1 At its most basic, a firewall is a hardware and/or software device that resides on a network. Its function is to block certain types of unwanted traffic, while allowing legitimate traffic to pass through to a server or group of servers. A firewall by itself is not an all-in-o ...
8. Linux/Unix Security 101
   By Payam Tarverdyan Chychi, PEER 1 Remote Security Network security is a growing concern among server administrators of all kinds. Whether you are a small one-person, one-server operation, or part of an enterprise corporation with hundreds of servers all over North America, you need to ensure t ...
9. Patch Management
   Update your server with the latest security patches and service packs By Robert Cott, PEER 1 The Proactive Approach Proactive security risk management has many advantages over a reactive approach. Instead of waiting for bad things to happen and then responding to them afterwards, you minimi ...
10. PEER 1 Leads the Hosting Industry in Storage, Backup and Recovery Solutions
    Anticipating its customers' increasing need for the utmost in storage management, backup and recovery, PEER 1 now provide industry leading storage, backup and recovery solutions from IBM and EMC. PEER 1's new systems, unmatched in the hosting industry, combine IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager softw ...
11. Security Response - Dealing with Intrusions
    By Brian Beaudoin, Security Engineer, PEER 1The website has slowed down to a crawl, your provider wants to charge you for extra bandwidth, and your public relations department is getting complaints of phishing scams and password scanners. How do you determine whether your system has been comprom ...
12. Understanding Security Terminology
    By Robert Cott, PEER 1One of the biggest concerns when an exploit is released in the “wild” is precisely understand the implications and the extensibility of this new form of attack.Normally, those classifications are clearly defined in bulletins, notes, forums, etc. But the question ...
13. What is Your Disaster Recovery Strategy?
    By Ron Bradburn, PEER 1 Have you ever been working on an important document for hours on end, and when you are close to completion, lose everything because you forgot to save it periodically, or worse, the computer you were using crashed? This scenario has happened to all of us at one point or ...