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

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 Institute of Machine Learning 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."

For more information or to speak to STRATO please contact:
Sneha Nagmoti / Kelly McMorran
T: 0207 388 9988 E: strato@spreckley.co.uk

About STRATO

• STRATO is one of Europe's leading web hosting providers and in June 2006 was recognised as Germany's number one web host provider by the eco Association of the German Internet industry, for their ongoing focus on excellent quality and customer service
• STRATO is based in Berlin and currently has two million domains and one million customer contracts. STRATO operations currently exist across Europe, including Germany, UK, Italy, Spain, France and the Netherlands
• Besides complete domain packages and DSL broadband access, STRATO markets high-quality servers and solutions in the area of e-commerce
• 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
• 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: freenet.de is one of the few providers to have its own network and hence a powerful infrastructure for data and speech exchange. This enables freenet.de to offer customers throughout the group optimum tariff plans and the highest level of performance as well as innovative products like the DSL telephony package iPhone

Information about STRATO can be found on the STRATO website at www.strato.eu / www.strato.com