The advantages of signing a cloud hosting firm in Chennai by any firm in South India or even elsewhere is a wide scope of opportunities and one of the largest firms that has led the way in the development is Hostzop.
Chennai is now ranked as one of the fastest growing technology centers in India and because of its geographical strategic location and good information technology, it is turning out to be a preferred cloud hosting destination. The key strength of the decision to locate a data center in Chennai is the fact that it is close to Singapore, one of the business hubs in the world.
Chennai happens to be one of the closest Indian metro cities to Singapore and as such, provides excellent international connectivity and thus it is an ideal location wherein the international companies that serve both nationals and foreign clients are involved.
In addition, cloud hosting in Chennai will ensure low latency, in addition to, faster connectivity in South Indian, such as Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. This translates into an improved performance of applications, easy user experience and faster data transfers, that are indispensable in the businesses that are in the current fast-moving digital economy.
Cloud infrastructure demand in Chennai has been escalating gradually because the start-up rates, IT companies, and business are high in the region. This has made the high level of investment in the new data centers which are highly technological to enable them to be scalable, store information and guarantee security of the information.
As the number of companies that work on the basis of digital platforms and cloud applications is rising, the city of Chennai has received an influx of demands, which concern not only their storage capacity but also high-security rates that can satisfy the Indian laws and international standards.
Also, by dealing with a local provider the business is better placed to have increased control over sensitive data with the added benefit of compliance and security.
The affordability is the other key advantage of hosting in Chennai. Having data nearer to the end users will ensure that banks save on the international bandwidth costs and at the same time enjoy world-class infrastructures.
Chennai is also globalized since there are a number of undersea cable landing stations in the city hence its internet base is one of the strongest in India. This ensures more business uptime, reliability, and business continuity. Besides this, the disaster recovery and the backup options in the local environment enhance business continuity planning.
Finally, the availability of cloud hosting services which are located in Chennai will give companies a chance to receive the support within their own time slot, and the awareness of the regional needs and issues is better.
Chennai has strategic location, most of its connectivity, cost advantage and is a rapidly growing cloud ecosystem; this implies that the location is well placed to be among the key cloud hosting hubs and therefore a favorable location to the businesses that desire to have reliable, secure and scalable Cloud Hosting solutions.
The uniqueness of Hostzop is due to the fact that it has its own data center located in Chennai with good performance backed by 24/7 professional human support. The fact that Hostzop is fully trained and can provide relatively cheap rates, as compared to other providers of cloud services in the world, is correct, since the company provides tailored cloud solutions to unique clients.
Critical Brute Force Attack: Solution To Our Customer
Our customer had a major security attack a couple of months ago with his server being targeted by the brute force attack. The brute force attack is any case where the evil mind is attempting to gain illegal entry through a systematic way of entering various and various combinations of usernames and passwords until they hit success.
The customer had not installed a firewall in his server since he had not made any investments in the server but therefore, the system was highly vulnerable.
This notwithstanding, when the issue emerged, our team immediately addressed it to ensure that their business operations were not influenced. This was initially to block the attack by determining the source of the malicious traffic.
Once they were identified, we imposed strict firewall policies to suppress the threat. These consisted of placing a special firewall to protect the server and insure it against constant attack.
To further tighten the security we also blocked IPs of some of the high risk countries that were attempting to access it numerous times. This was achieved through the application of country-based restrictions in order to prevent a large amount of the unhealthy traffic at the origin.
We also tracked and disabled all the open unnecessary ports in the server. Attackers have extensively used open ports to access the system and closing them will be very helpful to reduce the attack surface.
Besides these measures, we had deployed layered security, whereby only needed services were made and proper monitoring was in place. This approach of preemptive measure could correct not only the danger of brute force in the very near-term, but also precondition the invulnerability of the server to analogous assaults in the future.
Our team then quickly made a rapid analysis to determine the scope of the attack and its entry points. Key actions included:
- Firewall Deployment: Introduced a robust firewall that prevented all malicious traffic that can access the server.
- IP Blocking and Geo-Restriction: Geo-blocking rules This blocks all the countries with the highest history of attacks, and reduces the amount of incoming attacks.
- Port Hardening: This was achieved by shutting down all ports that were not essential and only important services remained open.
- Access Controls: This is the addition of restrictions to the policies granting log-in, rate limiting and lock-out of an account to prevent brutality attacks.
- Monitoring & Alerts: Enhanced real time monitoring with an alert on abnormal activity in initial cases.
And the ultimate result was that within a few seconds the brute force attack was neutralized, the server was put back on its feet, bad traffic was stopped, and the system performance was restored to normal. More to the point, the security of the server was improved as a means of addressing the threats in the future.
The case is interesting because, even though the customer did not buy a firewall solution initially due to the cost factor, our team took the additional initiative to protect the infrastructure of our customer. We also believe that we cannot afford to lose the level of security and we are willing to assist our customers in the circumstances when some critical issues emerge.
By the end of our intervention, the customer server was stable, secure and more secured than it was before the intervention. This was an incident that proved the necessity to have good security measures. We are happy that we have transformed a critical situation to an achievement story by securing the data of our customer and business continuity.
