CONNECTRIA INSIGHT - MANAGED HOSTING
e-NEWSLETTER
December 2008
in this issue
-- Welcome To Our New Clients
-- Connectria Ranked In The INC. Top 5000 List
-- Securing Your Environment
-- Employee Spotlight: Josh Patterson
Greetings,
Welcome to this issue of Insight. We look
forward to serving you in the upcoming year. This year
has been a unique business, economic and political
year for all of us. We are pleased to state that our
company remains consistently profitable & strong
financially, we continue to invest in our infrastructure &
people, and we are proud of our extremely low
customer & staff turnover. Rest assured that we will
be here for the long-term to enable our customers to
reap the benefits of the technology
solutions that they have entrusted to Connectria.
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WELCOME TO OUR NEW CLIENTS
We are very pleased to welcome
these companies as new Connectria customers.
We would especially like to thank all of our references
who spoke on our behalf
about their experiences with Connectria.
DeVry University,
Higher Education System with 92 Locations in North
America
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EM Technologies, Relationship
Management Software Provider
Link 2 Consult, Work Force
Management Solution Provider
SPX, Developer, Producer &
Distributor of Dehydration & Filtration
Technologies |
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CONNECTRIA RANKED IN INC.COM'S TOP 5000 FASTEST GROWING PRIVATE COMPANIES IN AMERICA
 Growing to nearly 1,000 customers in more than 30
countries around the world, Connectria Corporation
has been ranked in the Inc. 5000 List of fastest
growing private companies in America for 2008.
Connectria was also ranked in the Top 50
Businesses in St. Louis, MO. According to Inc.
Magazine, "The Inc. 5000 List is the most
comprehensive look at the most important segment of
the economy - America's independent-minded
entrepreneurs. Taken as a whole, these companies
represent the backbone of the U.S. economy."
Learn more about Connectria's
Ranking in the Inc 5000 List |
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SECURING YOUR ENVIRONMENT
| Connectria's very first hosting customer in 1998 was
Deutsche Bank. Before we could begin providing
hosting services, we had to pass an FDIC Security
Audit. Ever since then, security and reliability have
been key focus areas for Connectria. We continue to
host mission-critical environments with extremely high
security requirements, including systens for banking,
healthcare and credit card procesing. To ensure the
consistency and quality of our security processes,
Connectria's solutions and processes have been SAS
70 Type II Certified. Connectria offers a
comprehensive list of security solutions that can be
customized to meet each customer's unique security
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- Managed Firewalls & VPNs - Connectria
implements and manages dedicated Firewalls and
VPN solutions (Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint, Sonicwall,
Nortel, etc.) to provide a first layer of network
security.
- Advanced Server Hardening -
Connectria's Advanced Server Hardening provides an
end-to-end custom security configuration of your server
(s).
- Managed Server Virus Protection -
Connectria installs & manages Virus/Malware/Trojan
protection (Symantec, Trend Micro, or others)
including
monitoring security bulletins & updating virus
definitions.
- Managed O/S Security Patches &
Updates -Connectria's engineers provide
managed Operating System security patches & critical
updates for Windows, Linux, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, and
OS/400.
- Advanced Network Intrusion Prevention -
Connectria provides 24/7 monitoring & administration
of our advanced network intrusion protection systems
to protect customers from network intrusion
attempts.
- Distributed Denial Of Service (DDoS)
Protection - Connectria provides advanced DDoS
protection systems and 24/7 security incident
response services to protect our customers from
DDoS attacks.
- SYN Flood & Process Table Flood
Protection - Connectria proactively protects
customers from SYN Floods & Process Table Floods
through our advanced network infrastructure
protection
systems.
- Continuous Network Traffic Cleansing -
Connectria monitors & cleanses network traffic of
Worms, Viruses, Blended Threats, Trojans, Spyware,
Phishing, Backdoors, VOIP Threats, Walk-In Worms,
and Bandwidth Hijacking through advanced packet
flow inspection systems.
- Server Integrity Monitoring - Connectria
installs, monitors & manages Tripwire For Servers
Integrity Monitoring software to monitor servers, file
systems and directories against unauthorized
changes.
Feel free to contact your Connectria Account Manager
or Support Team if you would like to discuss your
specific security requirements in more detail. |
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EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT: JOSH PATTERSON
 Josh Patterson is a Systems Engineer for Connectria.
Josh is responsible for Connectria's iSeries/AS400
system builds and management, along with data
center infrastructure management & data center
security. The data center management tasks cover
servers, power and cooling systems, and all
day-to-day operations. Josh has been with
Connectria for nearly five years. He enjoys
Connectria's work environment and helping
customers resolve complex technical challenges.
Josh and his wife, Janine, have a 15-month-old
daughter named Lailyn. In his spare time, he enjoys
outdoor activities and coaches soccer during the
summer. |
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On behalf of all of us at Connectria, we thank you for
your interest. Please contact us if we can be of any
service to you.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
phone:
1-800-781-7820
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