Local Area Company Helps Calm Growing Internet Security Concerns

Reading, Pennsylvania, July 20, 2001, the support department receives an email from the Michelle Wilbers, CEO of WhatHelps.com, Inc. hosted with a well known Texas data center asking We Manage Servers to install a critical Microsoft security patch on two of its Windows 2000 servers.

The Texas data center notified Michelle Wilbers on Thursday, July 19, 2001 that

“Our support department has identified an IIS exploit which has the potential to affect a large number of our customers using Windows 2000 or Windows NT with IIS server.” ­ well known Texas data center

We Manage Server’s technical support team was happy to inform Michelle Wilbers that security patch MS01-033 was applied to both of her servers on June 19, 2001 (within 24 hours of its release from Microsoft Corporation). The data center notified its customers 31 days after the patch was released by Microsoft Corporation.

eWeek.com in its recent article “IT bugs out over IIS security” we read

“For Brooks Martin, patching and maintaining his Microsoft Corp. IIS Web servers is almost a full-time job. With so many vulnerabilities—and with a new patch appearing seemingly every week—Martin said it's a struggle keeping his head above water.”

We Manage Servers Managed Security offerings have been helping people and the company for which they work calm and collected in the growing face of security concerns on the Net.

There have been 141 vulnerabilities posted year to date according to recent SecurityFocus.com statistics.  Each of those vulnerabilities translates into one or more patches.

We Manage Servers’ security team monitors a large number of security update and vulnerability reporting sites making sure to note what updates need to be applied to what servers; and, making sure those are applied in a timely manner.

About We Manage Servers
We Manage Servers is a division of Dynamic Net, Inc. We Manage Servers helps companies take advantage of the power of co-located and dedicated servers without the hassles of knowing how to run and care for them. For more information visit http://www.wemanageservers.com/.