Go Daddy Wins Best Security Team Award

Web hosting provider Go Daddy has been recognized as the IT industry’s “Best Security ‎Team” at the 14th annual SC Magazine Awards in San Francisco. Go Daddy had very ‎recently launched their Premium DNS service.‎

The security team at Go Daddy protects nearly 46 million domain names and customers ‎in excess of 8.8 million. The team strength had risen from one person to more than 50 ‎people within six years of operation. ‎Many people depend on Go Daddy for their personal IT security. This enables them to ‎focus on their core business areas and enriching their Web presence. Go Daddy was working hard ‎every day to safeguard the websites belonging to their customers. The company’s IT ‎Security Team receiving this award from SC Magazine was a great honor.‎

The Hackfest event conducted internally at regular intervals by Go Daddy was a key strategy for ‎providing effective security. The event proactively checks for product vulnerabilities. The ‎effort secures Go Daddy products, and the rest of the company also become familiar ‎with security processes.‎ The use of Security Information Management is yet another core aspect of their security ‎offerings. SIM is a proactive approach based on their own ability to defend self before ‎getting attacked.‎