Building a Secure Environment for Deploying Remote Application Services

Overview

If a company's vital Web applications are not instantly available and consistently reliable, clients will quickly take their business elsewhere. UK based Attenda Ltd., IT managed service provider to companies such as EasyCar, Harrods, Avis, Reed, Microsoft, Mercedes-Benz, and Sun Microsystems, is well aware of this. Attenda was founded in 1997 with the vision to manage business-critical Web applications, providing a level of service which was previously unavailable in the marketplace. Initially clients depended on Attenda to provide Web-hosting services, but when the company began to market application hosting services, it needed to offer the strongest network security available. So Attenda turned to VeriSign for digital certificates, which protect sites and data via Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption.