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Fort Worth, Texas - (Cheap Hosting Directory) - September 16, 2005 -Web hosting company, C I Host, has introduced constant “robotic” security scanning, and patching of itsservers. The automatic system, Shavlik HFNetChkProT 5, from Michigan-based Deerfield.com, will bring the highest level of security to the data and online transactions of its more than 220,000 customers worldwide.

The automatic monitoring system will back up C I Host’s human security staff in order to further protect its server farm from inadvertently missing a necessary security patch.

According to Christopher Faulkner, CEO of C I Host, “Security is perhaps the most crucial element of eCommerce today.We don’t want any mayhem to our system because one technician or a sole company failed to install a necessary patch against a virus.”

Monitoring the thousands of servers a web hosting company needs against viruses every second of every day has become a Herculean task - too big for even the most conscientious human staff.

In any one of the 604,800 seconds in a given week, a company with access to its hosting server could remove or reverse a crucial patch, thus leaving the whole network vulnerable.

Enter Shavlik, a “robot” monitor that will scan the global C I Host network continually to detect any server that remains un-patched or in some way is exposed to the vast number of Microsoft security vulnerabilities that pop up daily.

“Shavlik will scan our network continually from the inside and will catch servers where companies have removed or reversed a patch and let us know,” Faulkner said. “We will be able to contact such clients and educate them on the importance of security.”

Microsoft products are frequent targets of hackers because they make up the lion’s share of computers, servers and operating systems in the industry. New threats emerge hourly and protecting against them has become an industry unto itself. Patching computers and servers across a large network is a full time job. Shavlik automates that job and builds in a higher level of
reliability.

Deploying Shavlik is the latest of a series of steps C I Host has taken to protect its customers and keep the Internet robust, healthy and secure.

C I host patched all its servers before the attack in August 2003 of the MSBlast (Lovsan) worm, and was one of the few web hosts to completely patch its servers against Code Red in 2001, sparing its customers most of the headaches of that worm.

In 2004, within 24 hours of the MyDoom viral outbreak, C I Host developed, tested and installed a virus filter called “Doompster” to totally extract and trash the MyDoom worm from the e-mails of its 205,000 clients.

“Shavlik will help keep our clients’ servers safe from Internet attacks at no extra cost to them,” Faulkner said. “It’s another way that we put our customers first.”

To learn more, please visit: www.cihost.com.

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