Digital Island's Footprint is the First Content Delivery Service to Achieve ICSA.net's TruSecure MSP Certification
BUSINESS WIRE - September 08, 2000 08:16
SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 8, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Independent Third-Party Security Experts Find Digital Island The Most Reliable Content Delivery Services Available On The Internet Today
Digital Island's Footprint(TM) is the first content delivery service to achieve a certification from ICSA.net's TruSecure(TM) managed service provider program. The MSP certification ensures Digital Island(R), Inc. (Nasdaq:ISLD) protects customers' content and applications against common security risks, including email viruses, hackers and downtime.
Digital Island's TruSecure certification raises the bar for content delivery providers. Web content security is a key issue for industries that rely on secure transactions, such as financial services, media and entertainment, and for other e-commerce enterprises that use content delivery to accelerate e-business. The Digital Island network addresses that need by creating multiple levels of protection -- including industry-tested firewalls, cookie-based or querystring-based authentication, HTTP authentication to provide the best distributed platform for secure, and authenticated content delivery.
"The validation and certification of Digital Island's Footprint content delivery network demonstrates the value TruSecure brings to organizations worldwide," said Adam Joseph, president and CEO of ICSA.net. "With increased awareness and concerns about security, coupled with the mass adoption of Internet services, Digital Island demonstrated superior capabilities in the industry, providing an extremely secure environment for its clients."
The Footprint content delivery service gives customers an improved online experience by delivering HTML, images, dynamic content, authenticated content and streaming media from servers located close to users at the edge of the Internet and seamlessly directing queries to the optimal-performing server.
"Companies that use Digital Island's Footprint content delivery services ask for more than just one-way delivery of content; they also require fast and secure execution of e-commerce transactions," said Tim Wilson, vice president of marketing at Digital Island. "ICSA.net's recognition of the Footprint network presents independent proof that Digital Island has fulfilled the pressing need for an easily deployable, highly reliable security solution to protect highly sensitive data that drives enterprise Web sites."
TruSecure MSP is founded on a deep understanding of information security principles. It verifies Digital Island maintains high-quality security on several levels, including:
-- standard server architecture -- such as routers, firewalls and Unix servers -- both onsite and via remote assessment.
-- physical access to its network operations centers, as well as
critical entry devices, to ensure they are segmented,
enforced, functional, accurate and support Digital Island's
security measures.
-- the network operation centers' architecture and connectivity,
including backup/failover systems, redundancy and
environmental controls.
-- staffing procedures, Internet security, administration, remote
access and physical security policies to ensure they are
aligned with the company's overall security process.
ICSA.net is a global leader in Internet security, helping companies assess and minimize their risk to security breaches. In order for companies to safely and confidently do business over the Internet, ICSA.net develops security protocols, creates certification programs, performs research, and tracks and measures risks. ICSA.net utilizes a three-prong approach to security for its global customers. First, ICSA.net offers its TruSecure(TM) product, a comprehensive and cost-effective program that guides companies in reducing security risks. Second, the company provides product and organization certification through its research center, ICSA.net Labs, which certifies more than 98 percent of the market's anti-virus software, network firewalls, intrusion detection, cryptography and IPSec products. Third, ICSA.net gives companies the most comprehensive and up-to-date industry information through its Website and publication, Information Security magazine.
Digital Island(R) is a leading Global e-Business Delivery Network using hosting, content delivery, networking and application services to help companies improve their customers' on-line experience by making Web applications run faster and more reliably and scale globally, resulting in more successful e-Business transactions. Digital Island is headquartered in San Francisco with a presence in 25 countries. www.digitalisland.net. |
