WebApp Sec: Re: Web Site Certification

[Admin Dbtech <admin () dbtech org>]

Hey,

To be very honest, I believe most of these services are nothing less 
then a very false sense of security.
In the past I have had many clients who relied on these organizations 
for their security testing however during penetration testing I 
successfully compromised these clients either through the web 
application or with known exploits from the metasploit framework.
Anyone who is involved with security can testify that automated services 
can NEVER replace a human audit and anyone that says that they guarantee 
security doesn't know what they are talking about.
Regards,
Yash Kadakia
Senior Security Researcher
Deadbolt Computer Technologies
http://www.dbtech.org



Marco Passarella wrote:
> Hi all,
> what do you think about the remote services that promise your site to
> be "hacker free"?
> Can you really monitor remotely the security of a site using a scanner?
> Here is an example:
> http://www.scanalert.com/
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
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