24/7 Support & Protection

Expert technical support and security services to keep your application up and running and protected against known vulnerabilities.
24/7 Support & Protection

Enhanced Application Support

When your development has gone live it’s tempting to think it will maintain itself – unfortunately, without ongoing support that is not the case. Web applications, mobile apps and websites require regular updates to run smoothly and keep your data secure.

Beyond that there are feature enhancements and ongoing incremental improvements to think about. Having a support arrangement means one responsive point of contact to manage all of these aspects along with your fully managed hosting, if required. 

Responsive help

OWA has over 25 years' experience maintaining digital products and third-party systems. We offer an inclusive 12-month warranty as standard for all of our developments, covering any errors or bug fixes. From there we are happy to support your build for as long as it is needed.

Our in-house technical support team offers a highly responsive approach under a service level agreement (SLA) that prioritises your urgent issues as they arise alongside proactive software and security updates. As part of your support arrangement, we can also implement small feature enhancements and pieces of data migration.

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Tailored to you

Our technical support services are, above all, flexible so they fit in with your workflow. Priority support items can be reported via our client portal and dedicated phone service. We will also schedule regular background software and security updates proactively, keeping your system and data up-to-date and protected.

Our support agreements can be combined with a managed hosting arrangement at our UK-based data centres, providing a single, joined-up service and point of contact for all your ongoing technical needs. 

Third-party support

We can also support your web applications, mobile apps and websites that have been developed elsewhere. 

Our in-house technical support team will carry out a health-check against OWASP standards to identify any vulnerabilities and recommend an optimal support arrangement and any hosting, if appropriate. From there, we offer a highly responsive service to manage maintenance and address any issues as soon as they arise.  This service also applies to legacy systems and software.

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OWA team is always ready to help you with application support and protection

Application Security Protection

Through our experience hosting and supporting secure online applications we understand what is needed to keep your application secure and available.

Our clustered perimeter firewalls provide the first line of defence which includes real-time Intrusion Protection against spyware, SQL injections, cross-site scripting and other common threats.

We are a Cloudflare partner and implement their Security & Performance for Applications service to help mitigate Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks along with providing additional resilience and application delivery optimisation.

The service is designed to ensure that your digital application is monitored, the host operating system is patched and all dependant frameworks are kept up to date on a regular basis.

We aim to provide maximum online availability for the applications which we host and manage, whilst keeping your data fully secure. As an ISO27001 and Cyber Essentials accredited Company, your digital application and data are in safe hands.

Inclusive services

  • Automated Operating System Updates
  • Automated WordPress Security Updates
  • Implementation of Wordfence Free
  • Let's Encrypt SSL certificate
  • Manual Drupal Security Updates
  • OWA's 24/7 monitoring and response for applications
  • *Cloudflare Security and Performance for Applications based on the Pro plan, including:
    • Cloudflare managed Web Application Firewall, with dedicated Cloudflare provided WordPress, Drupal, or OWASP rulesets to help protect against known vulnerabilities.
    • DDoS alerts - Cloudflare will send you a realtime alert when a DDoS attack is detected and mitigated.
    • Page Shield - Protect website visitors against client-side attacks that target vulnerable Javascript dependencies.
    • TLS 1.3 by where possible by default
    • Browser Integrity Check
    • Hotlink Protection

* Feature would require the domain name to be hosted by OWA.

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I am very happy with the service and support provided by OWA.

Bahia Dawlatly, communications officer, Leverhulme Trust
Find out more about our application support and protection services

Find out more about our application support and protection services

Our 24/7 Support & Protection services can protect and extend the life of your application well into the future.