Will Tomlinson wrote: > I noticed a competitor to our e-comm app uses scanalert.com. Just got off the > phone with a salesman and wanted to get some input from you guys. > > It looks like it costs around $1900/year, or $179/month. The dude said it has > a 30 day risk-free guarantee - if you don't see results, you quit and they > give your money back. > It looks like a LOT of bigtime e-comm sites are using their services. > http://www.scanalert.com/site/en/hsp/? > > Anyone have any recommendations/experience with these guys? > > Thanks, > Will
We used Scan Alert for over a year right after they came out. It's a really good service and extremely easy to use - but you pay for it. Getting in early we were able to pay less then the average Joe and we were able to scan more IP Addresses then just the one they offer now. As soon as we wanted to scan more then what they gave us initially, they jacked up the price by quite a bit. That was not something we were prepared to pay. After doing a bit of research on the subject, we found that all these services are basically the same. The "Hacker Safe", "Hacker Secured", "Hacker Defended", etc etc etc tools all basically do the same thing - and almost all of them are based on Nessus. (http://nessus.org/) Nessus is a free vulnerability scanner that anyone can use to scan their networks for potential vulnerabilities. You can set it up yourself on your own system if you'd like. The scan reports can be output in HTML, XML, or a variety of other formats. What these places do it take the Nessus reports, then add some of their own formatting, etc (Good, expensive places like "Hacker Safe" may even add their own notes to the report like where to find patches, how to quickly overcome an error, etc - but it's all the same info.), then re-sell the scans as a service. Because of how Nessus is licensed they can do that. Take a look at some of the other stuff available from Tenable Security. They make Nessus. They don't offer a pretty logo to put on your site but it's the same kind of reports: http://www.tenablesecurity.com/ <shameless plug> Vivio offers a Nessus Vulnerability Scan for $5 per month. The results can be viewed in HTML format on a password-protected web server: http://www.viviotech.net/hosting_addons.cfm </shameless plug> Hope this helps! -- Warm regards, Jordan Michaels Vivio Technologies http://www.viviotech.net/ Blue Dragon Alliance Member [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:259456 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
