{"id":695,"date":"2020-10-15T08:55:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T05:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/?p=695"},"modified":"2022-02-28T12:59:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T10:59:05","slug":"getting-started-with-sshield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/getting-started-with-sshield\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started with SShield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The popularity of open-source <\/span><b>website building platforms like WordPress<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> means that a wider array of users can now launch their<\/span><b> new projects without too much of a hassle<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This is good for people browsing the web and looking for new information, but it&#8217;s even better for hackers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Table of contents:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is SShield?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How does SShield work?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How can you control SShield?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conclusion<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many of the people launching new websites today don&#8217;t have much experience with computers. They <\/span><b>often don&#8217;t really know much about the challenges of securing a website, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and as a result, their online business is often easy prey for cybercriminals. When they do get attacked, they don&#8217;t know what to do, and the <\/span><b>cost of getting a specialist to fix the problem<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is often overwhelming. All this could spell the end for the entire project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At ScalaHosting, we understand how frustrating this experience might be, which is why we&#8217;ve developed <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/website-security.html\"><b>SShield<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><b>What is SShield?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>SShield is our proprietary security system<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that is integrated into <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/spanel.html\"><b>SPanel<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and is available free of charge to all <\/span><b>ScalaHosting customers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who have picked one of our shared or managed cloud VPS hosting solutions. It constantly monitors the websites hosted on your account, and it <\/span><b>successfully blocks 99.998% of all attacks.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>The built-in Artificial Intelligence<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (AI)<\/span><b> scans<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through all the processes on your websites, and if it detects any malicious behavior, it alerts you immediately. It works <\/span><b>24\/7\/365<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and it&#8217;s completely automated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><b>How does SShield work?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Traditional security solutions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> rely on a <\/span><b>signature-based system to detect malware<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This approach is centered around a huge database full of <\/span><b>known malware hashes<\/b> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(or signatures)<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. If the security product spots a file on your computer or server with a signature that is available in its database, it flags it as malicious and blocks it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Security companies work hard<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to keep these databases as up-to-date as possible, but the number of threats that emerge every day is so huge that such a list can never really be considered complete.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>SShield&#8217;s approach is different<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Instead of a large database of hashes, it uses AI to look for any malicious processes that might be running on the server. This increases the chances of <\/span><b>catching a new malware <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">strain that has not yet been added to the databases of signatures, and SShield has proven that it <\/span><b>successfully blocks almost all online attacks.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to this, when it does detect malicious code on your website, it analyzes it, gathers all the information it needs about it, and sends you a detailed report on what has happened and what you need to do to fix it.<\/span><b> SShield also gives you time to take the necessary precautions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most hosting providers suspend compromised accounts <\/span><b>immediately after detecting malicious activity. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The speed with which SShield catches the attack, however, and the fact that it can tell the website owner exactly what happened, means that <\/span><b>we can let our customers fix the issue within reasonable time limits <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">without causing any downtime. What&#8217;s more, once the malware has been removed,<\/span><b> SShield will continue monitoring the website <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to ensure that the security vulnerability has been closed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><b>How can you control SShield?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The great thing about SShield is that it&#8217;s <\/span><b>100% automated<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Customers who have opted for one of our managed cloud VPS hosting solutions can <\/span><b>ensure that the service is running on their server<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. To do that, they need to log into their SPanel and click <\/span><b>Server Status<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-696\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sshield.jpg\" alt=\"Getting Started with SShield, How can you control SShield?\" width=\"1903\" height=\"1262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sshield.jpg 1903w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sshield-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sshield-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sshield-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sshield-1536x1019.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 660px, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 910px, 1140px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If everything is alright, you should be able to <\/span><b>see the green checkmark next to SShield<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. If it isn&#8217;t, you can always get in touch with <\/span><b>our technical support team<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who will look into the matter immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apart from that, there&#8217;s nothing you need to do. The service is automatically enabled for all websites hosted on your account, and it works in the background,<\/span><b> letting you focus on your day-to-day tasks.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><b>Conclusion<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Launching a new website is about a lot more than just <\/span><b>creating a good-looking design and adding some content<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It&#8217;s a complicated process, and there are quite a few things you need to think about. Security is one of the <\/span><b>most important aspects<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but unfortunately, far too many people simply don&#8217;t know how to tackle it, and this often leads to a frustrating experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to its unique method for monitoring websites and <\/span><b>detecting malicious activity<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, SShield gives both inexperienced users and trained developers the peace of mind they need. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popularity of open-source website building platforms like WordPress means that a wider array of users can now launch their new projects without too much of a hassle. This is good for people browsing the web and looking for new information, but it&#8217;s even better for hackers. Table of contents: What is SShield? 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