Dome9 Cloud Security Firewall Management Protects Servers for Leading Financial Analysis Website; Saves Time and Money While Consolidating Server Infrastructure
Best Growth Stock is a premier financial analysis and content provider, servicing thousands of customers and partners, including Reuters, with the 
most current stock market information, news, and investment analysis. Before deploying Dome9, the service was under constant attack by hackers trying to get access to its root server. As a result, the team spent hundreds of dollars a month in managed firewall services, root services access and up to six hours each day monitoring the site and manually tracking the attacking IP addresses.
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“The Dome9 service has been excellent, and it really nails down the protection for our servers,” said Dr. Omar Caban, Best Growth Stock founder. “Before Dome9 we were trying to block these attacks manually, and we had to have someone dedicated to this task daily to fully do the job. Once we installed Dome9, the attacks stopped that day.”
Dome9 Security is the only cloud server security service to automate cloud firewall management for public and private clouds, as well as for dedicated and Virtual Private Servers (VPS) across various platforms. Dome9 closes a critical gap in today’s cloud security – ports such as SSH, RDP, and MYSQL left open so administrators can connect to and manage their cloud servers. This common practice leaves servers vulnerable to hackers who need only guess the correct username and password or exploit any protocol vulnerability to gain unauthorized control of a server. Dome9 secures all administrative ports – for all servers and clouds – enabling secure access, on-demand.
According to Caban, Best Growth Stock was introduced to Dome9 through Dome9’s partner CloudFlare. “To demonstrate how well Dome9 works for us, we took the service offline for a short time and immediately the attacks began again, until we started the Dome9 service back up,” said Caban. “Overall we have saved time and money securing our cloud servers with Dome9, and ensured their availability, which is especially critical during trading hours when our site is most active. Moving forward, Dome9 will allow us to consolidate our cloud infrastructure, saving us even more money.”
“Best Growth Stock is a leading portal providing investors with the most up to date stock market information, news and investment analysis, and we are pleased to be working with them to keep their servers attack free and available for users,” said Dave Meizlik, Dome9 VP of Marketing and Business Development. “Dome9 is the only service to automate and centrally manage cloud security firewall management across all servers and clouds. This unique approach – combining automation, on-demand access and centralization – makes cloud security both more effective and elastic for enterprises and hosting providers alike.”
Dome9 is a first-of-its-kind service that dynamically manages cloud firewalls across infrastructure platforms. Leveraging either its light-weight agent or providers’ security APIs, Dome9 dynamically configures firewall access ensuring all administrative ports are closed by default, or opened only when, for whom, and for as long as is required to access the cloud server. Dome9 works for virtual machines in private or public clouds, as well as for dedicated servers, supporting Linux and Windows servers running all virtualization technologies. Its key innovation is the ability to provide secure access leasing – dynamically generated, time-based secure access to cloud servers, which enables customers to close all server administrative ports by default.
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