STRATO AG

STRATO LAUNCHES LATEST EMAIL SECURITY SOLUTION

STRATO introduces ServerSide Security, its latest solution to combat spam, phishing and email viruses


8th November 2006 - STRATO, one of Europe’s leading web hosters today announces the launch of ServerSide Security, an anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-phishing solution that will form part of all new and existing STRATO web hosting packages at no extra cost to the customer.

After conducting research into their own customer base, STRATO discovered that up to 80% of all emails reaching their users consisted of a combination of spam, phishing emails or email viruses. With the problem so close to home, STRATO understood the need to prioritise email security for all its customers.

As a result, STRATO formed a partnership with the Task Group for Knowledge Management, Institute of Information Technology at the Humboldt University in Berlin, and since 2005 has been developing a solution that will successfully combat the increasing security risks associated with damaging emails. This collaboration has resulted in ServerSide Security, which successfully fights online security risks by:

• Evaluating email messages not just by words, but also by word combinations
• Evaluation of information contained in the email header
• Classification and detection of phishing emails
• Recognition of email viruses on the basis of specific dispersion patterns
• The high level of filtration guarantees damaging emails are instantly removed before reaching a users spam folder
• Consideration and analysis of social graphs – whereby a calculation is made concerning how many times one person communicates with a set of others
• A removal of false positives in the spam folder which could lead to a phasing out of the spam folder as it becomes redundant
  

Damian Schmidt, CEO of STRATO, said: “Spammers and phishers are constantly attempting to fool email security filter systems with new methods of conning the customer. We make sure we work with the experts to keep one step ahead of them, through the constant updating of our email security offering and by pre-empting future email security attacks. By providing ServerSide Security free as part of our web hosting packages we enable our small to medium customers receive the same level of security protection as that of an enterprise.”

Notes to Editors

• STRATO is based in Berlin and currently has three million domains and one million customer contracts. STRATO operations currently exist across Europe, including Germany, UK, Italy, Spain, France and the Netherlands.
• For the third time running STRATO received the platinum "European Seal of Excellence in Multimedia" in 2006, the international seal of excellence for state-of-the-art applications, technologies and services.
• In June STRATO was recognised as Germany’s number one web host provider by the independent eco Association of the German Internet industry for their ongoing focus on excellent quality and customer service.
• STRATO was also recently named the number one budget webhosting service in the UK by the leading site, the Webhost Directory: This neutral customer product site awards the web hosts in six areas of performance, including cost, features, support, reliability and speed by tabulating votes received from visitors and reviewers to the site.
• STRATO was the first major European web host to receive the internationally coveted German Technical Control Board seal “BS7799“ which is now ISO 27001:2005. The British standard certification was awarded by the independent German testing organisation TÜV SÜD, for the reliability of its computing centres, security and data availability
• Partners of STRATO are e.g. Sun Microsystems, Cisco, AMD, Adobe and Microsoft
• Besides complete domain packages and DSL broadband access, STRATO markets high-quality servers and solutions in the area of e-commerce
• STRATO is a one hundred per cent subsidiary of freenet.de, a listed Internet and telecommunications company with over ten million customers
• STRATO benefits from the competence of its parent company and utilises existing group synergies to offer its own customers exceptional services