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What Is Website Protection Site Scanner?

Website Protection Site Scanner is a website scanning service that identifies security vulnerabilities on any page or file in your website. It can diagnose threats such as phishing exploits, SQL injection flaws and cross-site scripting (XSS). Vulnerabilities are ranked by severity, and each issue includes suggestions for how to resolve it.

A website must pass a scan to receive and display a date-stamped Site Scanner seal. The seal assures visitors that the website they are browsing or shopping on is vigorously scanned on a daily basis and has no known vulnerabilities.

To maintain the site seal, issues that cause a failed scan must be corrected within 72 hours. The seal is revoked if the website fails a re-scan.

What is a Web application vulnerability?

A Web application vulnerability is a security weakness in a website or its environment. Vulnerabilities usually occur when there is a site development or implementation flaw.

Depending on the type of flaw, malicious users might exploit vulnerabilities, which could change the website, collect visitor’s personal information, steal visitor’s browser data, or perform other harmful actions to the site or visitors.

Vulnerabilities can be difficult for Web developers to locate because, in many cases, they do not affect the intended use of the application. Plus, there are hundreds of “known” vulnerabilities and new ones are discovered daily.

For example: If a log-in page submits credentials in “clear text,” the log-in information is sent to the server unencrypted. Visitors can log in and might not notice any issue.

Attackers who discover the “clear text” vulnerability might try to intercept another visitor’s log-in information and exploit it.

You can resolve this issue by adding an SSL certificate to the website, which encrypts transactions between visitors and the site.

To avoid vulnerabilities, regularly evaluate your site and its environment for flaws. Also, use a daily vulnerability scanner, such as Website Protection Site Scanner, to detect issues.

Why Website Protection Site Scanner?

Website Protection identifies security issues on your website that could allow a hacker to steal information, deface your site, or infect your customers. Site Scanner’s daily vulnerability scan looks for threats and categorizes them by severity with an easy-to-read scorecard and gives you recommendations on how to fix them.

Site Scanner looks for weaknesses on your website that a hacker can exploit. It scans forms, login and password fields, internal and external links – places where a hacker could get in to deface your website, steal information or infect your customers with malware. Site Scanner scans for more than 3,000 vulnerabilities every day, including spyware, back doors, SQL injection opportunities and cross-site scripting (XSS) holes.

Visit our Website Protection – Site Scanner for more information