Intermedia

Why Intermedia?

Intermedia is the world leader in providing enterprise-class email at a small business price:

Intermedia has more experience hosting Exchange and more satisfied customers than any other provider:

  Intermedia Other hosts
Most experienceMailboxes managed 230,000 Limited number
Chart of profitsIn business a long time – proven and profitable? included
Since 1995
Longer experienceLong experience offering hosted Exchange? included
Since 2000		 Limited experience
SAS 70 certifiedSAS 70 certified for controls and security? included
Company-wide		 Rarely
Microsoft Gold Certified PartnerClose Microsoft relationship? included
Microsoft Gold Certified
PCI compliantCompliant with credit card security standards? included
PCI compliant
(mandatory as of October 1, 2007)

More Expertise

More companies worldwide outsource Exchange to Intermedia than to any other provider. With more hosted business email boxes than any other company, we have the expertise to manage your business email environment.

When you outsource Exchange to Intermedia, you benefit from:

  • Years of experience. Intermedia has been in business since 1993 and hosting Microsoft Exchange since 2000 – far longer than any of our competitors.
  • Microsoft Gold Certified partner. We are Microsoft Gold Certified and all of our technical and support staff are Microsoft Certified Professionals, or are completing training towards this.
  • SAS 70 compliance. Independently audited to ensure best practices and data security.
  • Company stability. Intermedia has been profitable and stable since 1993, so you don’t have to worry about your Exchange host going out of business and losing your data.

Security and Compliance

Intermedia adheres to the industry’s strictest regulations for security and compliance. We are PCI compliant, SAS 70 certified and secured by VeriSign.

SAS 70 certification

SAS 70 is an auditing statement issued by the Auditing Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), officially titled “Reports on the Processing of Transactions by Service Organizations”. SAS 70 defines the professional standards used by a service auditor to assess the internal controls of a service organization and issue a service auditor’s report.

Intermedia has undergone SAS 70 certification in order to show its customers that its controls and security processes are of a high standard.

What is PCI?

Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance is reached when a company meets the guidelines set forth by the major credit card companies as a guideline to help organizations that process card payments prevent credit card fraud, hacking and various other security issues. A company processing, storing, or transmitting credit card numbers must be PCI compliant or they risk losing the ability to process credit card payments. The requirements of the standard are as follows:

Build and Maintain a Secure Network

  • Requirement 1: Install and maintain a firewall configuration to protect cardholder data.
  • Requirement 2: Do not use vendor-supplied defaults for system passwords and other security parameters.

Protect Cardholder Data

  • Requirement 3:Protect stored cardholder data.
  • Requirement 4:Encrypt transmission of cardholder data across open, public networks.

Maintain a Vulnerability Management Program

  • Requirement 5: Use and regularly update anti-virus software.
  • Requirement 6: Develop and maintain secure systems and applications.

Implement Strong Access Control Measures

  • Requirement 7: Restrict access to cardholder data by business need-to-know.
  • Requirement 8: Assign a unique ID to each person with computer access.
  • Requirement 9: Restrict physical access to cardholder data.

Regularly Monitor and Test Networks

  • Requirement 10: Track and monitor all access to network resources and cardholder data.
  • Requirement 11: Regularly test security systems and processes.

Maintain an Information Security Policy

  • Requirement 12: Maintain a policy that addresses information security.

Intermedia has completed all of these requirements and is PCI compliant.

Secured by VeriSign

Intermedia has secured its site by VeriSign, the industry leader in security. With VeriSign securing our site, you can rest assured that any data you send to use through our Web site is 100% protected and private through the strongest SSL encryption available.

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