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Re: Is your website Secure!

#31

Post by arghwhat »

lexokoh wrote: post #29
Puts wrote: post #26

This scan is so limited that I wonder if it even could be directly damaging. If the average Joe who set up a CMS for his business runs this and thinks "Great I got a 90% score our site is secure".

I think it's more of a start. I don't think an average Joe who got 90% will assume this. 90% is big.

Average Joe and businesses alike will assume that a tool telling them their site is secure means that they don't have to worry much about it. A tool that can easily be made to report "100% secure" is then quite harmful.

Even large corporations rely largely on buying reports, and in turn buying products to fix the results of those reports as their primary security strategy.

Re: Is your website Secure!

#32

Post by lexokoh »

arghwhat wrote: post #31
lexokoh wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's more of a start. I don't think an average Joe who got 90% will assume this. 90% is big.

Average Joe and businesses alike will assume that a tool telling them their site is secure means that they don't have to worry much about it. A tool that can easily be made to report "100% secure" is then quite harmful. Even large corporations rely largely on buying reports, and in turn buying products to fix the results of those reports as their primary security strategy.

I get your point, but I still can't believe the average Joe would think like this. Also, large corps get SOC2, yet they are still not secure.

Also, auditors use tools like this or have their tools to get reports telling them they are 100% secure.

No one should ever assume 100% security, even when the odds suggest otherwise. Maybe you are right.

Re: Is your website Secure!

#35

Post by lexokoh »

johnisgood wrote: post #20

That contact form being open automatically and not being able to hide it is annoying, I have to use uBlock to hide it. Additionally, I get "Connection error, please refresh the page." for a website that clearly is accessible.

I experienced this and tried again. It worked fine. Servers i think.

Re: Is your website Secure!

#36

Post by red_trumpet »

lexokoh wrote: post #21
pjmlp wrote: post #17

Quite lousy experience on the input field, keeps complaining to enter a valid url. Additionally it seems to have issues with random sites given as parameter, only working with the displayed examples.

The experience is fine for me, though yes, I think it doesn't support some domains yet.

For starters, they don't support any subdomains...

Re: Is your website Secure!

#37

Post by k__ »

Doesn't seem to work.

Either it complains that my domain isn't valid in the input, or it redirects to the landing page if I add my domain to the URL.

Re: Is your website Secure!

#38

Post by lexokoh »

k__ wrote: post #37

Doesn't seem to work. Either it complains that my domain isn't valid in the input, or it redirects to the landing page if I add my domain to the URL.

I think some domain types are not supported yet. I have experienced this as well, but my other domains work.
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