Hacking incidents are rampant these days, and have we, your preferred web host done enough to protect you from malicious attacks? Exabytes understands that data privacy and security are of utmost importance to any organization or individual, and is always upgrading to strengthen our level of security and protection to protect our clients. However, cooperation of our clients also plays an important role in achieving this important goal.

Website Security for hosting is basically divided into 4 main layers:

1) Network Layers (Taken care by your web host Exabytes)

• We have segmented our networks, and are using multiple redundant service providers.
• We monitor our network traffic 24×7.
• Network Firewalls

2) Server Layers (Taken care by your web host Exabytes)

• We have hardened our servers, and keep our servers’ operating system and software up to date.
• We also monitor our servers closely for any abnormal traffic.
• Firewalls in front of the server layers

3) Web Application Layers (Need Clients’ Cooperation)
This is the open source or custom web applications users installed on their hosting accounts.

• Users need to ensure that the softwares installed are up-to-date and patched accordingly.
• Users must ensure their web folders are not exposed to “public write-able”.
• If users are using open source Content Management System like Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, etc, make sure they are running the latest versions.
• Disable unused plugins / software for their websites. Or update from time to time.

4) Users Layers (Need Clients’ Attention)

• Make sure the notebook/PC used by users or even local office server is free from virus/Trojans.
• Use a secure password. A secure password is made up of a combination of alphabets, numbers and special characters and has at least 8 characters the minimum.
• Make sure your passwords are changed at least once every 3 months.
• And most importantly, make sure your passwords are stored in a secure place. Do not save your passwords in Address Book or Excel File. They must be stored in a Password Manager where they are encrypted.
• All the above apply for all your passwords including passwords for your hosting control panel, domain name manager, FTP, mailboxes, content management system and user name for other online portals.

Each year, hacking attacks caused many organizations and individuals great losses and huge amounts of money. By putting in a little more effort to enhance your site security, you too can prevent these unlawful malicious attacks!

How to application security, web security, website security

Exabee is sad! Never did he think that www.Exabytes.CO would be taken by others!

One might wonder what is so special about .CO Domain names (or domain extension)? Besides being the country-code of Top Level Domain for the Republic of Colombia, .CO today is as good as.COM in representing a Credible and Recognizable GLOBAL BRAND. It is in fact used by many large corporations such as Twitter (t.co), Bank of America Corporation (bankofamerica.co),YTL (ytl.co), etc.

This is GOOD NEWS to companies or individuals who already got their .COM domains TAKEN by others! What about YourCompany.co? Has it already been taken by others?

While we truly regret that we didn’t act earlier to register www.Exabytes.CO, you still can!

With just RM38 (Normal price: RM150), you can register NOW to PROTECT YOUR BRAND!! Unlike .COM, there are still a lot of good names left with .CO extension.

Besides, .Co also represents many other meanings; it can represent Company, Corporation, Connection, Banking, and Commerce and in the case of individuals for blogs, forums, and social-networking purposes. You could refer to the below on how to tap on the benefits of .Co domain names.

For more information, kindly log on to: http://www.exabytes.com.my/services/domain/codomain.php

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The famous movie Gozilla has always reminded us of ‘Size Matters!’ But in last April when it came to judging a person’s ability at work and his/her professionalism, it appeared the opposite. For this person, size doesn’t really matter! Although she is small-framed by nature, she stands tall at work. Although she looks all cute and adorable, she is determined and capable in overcoming hardship at all costs.

In April 2011, she is our Employee of the Month who is worth a big round of applause! Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you our charming, adorable Venusian at Exabytes, our beloved Account Assistant, Jessica Sim!!

Not only is Jessica extremely helpful to juniors in guiding them, she is highly dedicated and has never minded putting in extra hours to clear up aging invoices. She enjoys mixing around with almost everyone in the office, and is known to be exceptionally patient even under work pressure.

And the following just give us more reasons to choose her as our EOTM April 2011:

• Very good in task arrangement with team members
• Takes the initiative to clear aging invoices by following up accordingly
• Goes the extra mile to guide juniors
• Takes the initiative to work overtime
• Gets problems solved in short period
• Are good friends to everyone in the office
• Very patient even under work pressure
• Willing to take extra responsibilities

Congratulations Jessica! You have proven that ‘size doesn’t matter’!

Employee of the Month

It’s again the moment of truth! Time passes by like lightning and we are here again to announce our respected EOTM of March 2011. Before we reveal the big secret, we gonna keep you in suspense and let’s see if you could figure out who the big star is for the third month of 2011.

He is one of the Martians in our technical support team who possesses the most boyish charm. Talk to him and you will usually be greeted with a playful smile, and a super friendly and heart-warming “How are you doing?” In March, he outperformed many of us by taking the initiative to solve the issues in server migration even during non-working hours. Besides, when approached by colleagues and juniors for help, he is known to be ‘speedy’ and extremely helpful.

Any idea who this young man is?

Without further ado, let’s put our hands together for KK Kwan, our young and charming System Engineer!!

Not only is he a fast self-learner, Kwan possesses more amazing qualities at work which successfully impressed our ever critical judges of EOTM such as:

• Stays overtime to complete tasks at helpdesk
• Dedicates his non-working hours to solve issues in server migration
• Attends to clients’ requests well and is very responsible in doing follow-ups
• Helpful when assistance is needed from juniors or colleagues
• Friendly and affable
• A fast self-learner
• Shows great improvements at work
• Positive attitude, great teamwork

Congratulations Kwan! We salute you for your selfless attitude to work.

Employee of the Month