It's a tough choice on this kind of thing isnt it, When I try selling my services to clients, security is always at the front of their mind and they love to have some form or reasurance, and something familiar like VeriSign SSL and the HackerSafe badge can definatly add that level of assurance to your clients.
Although you cant believe all the sales blurb from the site, they do state that thier large clients see a dramatic increase in revenue when the HackerSafe brand is displayed as comsumers feel more trusting. I think its also important to note that this isnt just a visual thing to asure consumers your application is secure, the reports from the HackSafe app can be a genuinly usefull business tool for you if you use it properly, in the same way that studying your google analytics and webserver logs can be. Finding loopwholes in your application security is very important to ensure you're providing the proper level of service to your clients, by using the audit reports from someone like HackerSafe you can do this efficiently and effectivly. But you're right. boasting the secure state of your application is bound to serve as a challenge to hackers, but on the flip side to the coin, if you have your application security at the forefront of your mind due to some slight paranioer you're likely to do more to ensure its as tight as possible. I think if security is important, and i mean IMPORTANT in a 'business critical' kind of way, then you owe it to yourself to do everything possible to explore what vulnerabilities may lie in the app. I'm not a hackersafe customer at the moment, but i like the concepts behind it. Just my thoughts, Rob > Has anybody else sen this HackerSafe program from Scan Alert? > > https://www.scanalert.com/ > > Does anyone else feel this is like throwing down the gauntlet to potential > hackers?? I mean come on...."this site certified to be 99.9% hacker safe" > is like saying....come one and all and try and hack us to prove us > wrong!!. > > Personally I've always warned clients about boasting about their security > for just that reason. > > Thoughts? > > Cheers > > Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. > VP & Director of E-Commerce Development > Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. > phone: 250.480.0642 > fax: 250.480.1264 > cell: 250.920.8830 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: www.electricedgesystems.com > > Notice: > This message, including any attachments, is confidential and may contain > information that is privileged or exempt from disclosure. It is intended > only for the person to whom it is addressed unless expressly authorized > otherwise by the sender. If you are not an authorized recipient, please > notify the sender immediately and permanently destroy all copies of this > message and attachments. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:280412 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
