Lock Down: Security Best Practices for Hosting Resellers

You receive a call in the middle of the night from an important customer. She is quite concerned about a potential data breach on her server, so you rush to the office and begin working with your partner data center to identify the source of the problem. As you work to identify the potential threat and to secure access to the server, a million thoughts race through your head.

To prevent the need from entering into damage control mode, make sure you’re following best practices in terms of your server setup as well as selecting a data center that takes extra security precautions. This guide provides an overview of best practices for selecting a properly secured data center as a trusted hosting partner.

Physical Elements of Data Center Security

Many hosting resellers only look at the types of data security offered by data centers, without fully taking into account eh importance of physical security and data center protection. The physical protection of the data center should capture proper entrance security, 24/7 monitoring of the data center, as well as a structurally sound building protected from basic emergencies. Preparing for the unexpected and treating your client data with the utmost precaution should be a common operating standard for properly securing data centers. Having the right technical partners can keep your clients, and your business, secure from external threats.

Having proper backup integration for your data center provides an important means of keeping your client sites up, secure and protected against any potential threats. Multiple energy backup sources can provide a more effective way to be able to reliably protect against data loss or damage that can come from operating a server. Offsite backups and redundant external servers can maintain consistency in data transfer and quality, helping you to meet a full set of data transfer requirements while significantly improving operational efficiencies.

Data Transfer Security Options

Once you have identified a physically secure data center partner, it’s important to audit their firewalls, server monitoring and data security practices for your server. At a baseline, the company should offer multiple levels of quality firewalls to properly protect inbound and outbound server requests. Nearly any online server, independent of its use, is subject to regular scans by bots and criminals for vulnerabilities. Keeping your server protected, patched and secure from these potential threats should be one of the core tasks for those looking to improve data transfer rates and quality.

Proper serving monitoring is also a core tasks that can provide a more effective way to secure data transfer. Keeping your software patched and protected against emerging vulnerabilities is important, but only 24/7 server monitoring can trigger responses to provide real time protection against emerging threats to your servers. Rather than having to respond to a late night client call, your data center should alert you with a precautionary call in advance of problems emerging on the server. Working with the right data center can provide the tools, options and proactive monitoring to maximize server uptime while limiting any potential disruptions to your data.