Website Compliance Tightens after Pentagon Computer System is Hacked Again

Following the theft of documents regarding the Joint Strike Fighter program, web security scanning at the Pentagon is expected to improve.

Ontario, Canada – April 28th 2009: Security experts and staff working on the Joint Strike Fighter programme are concerned following a recent hacking incident on Pentagon computer systems. This is the third such incident within the past two years and it marks the start of looking more closely at the organization’s security compliance and web security scanning efforts.

How the Pentagon will tighten their web security is yet unknown, but it’s expected that broader standards than what are already in place for most commercial enterprises - such as HIPAA, SoX, PCI 1.2 – will apply. Whilst security breaches at large Government organizations is not new, it illustrates to small- and medium-sized businesses just how common this is. Web security software companies such as 54f3.com, named after the L33t (leet) computer language for ’SAFE’, are urging customers to try their service to eradicate vulnerabilities in their own systems.

“We hate to say ’I told you so’ to many of our customers” says 54f3.com Managing Director Jason Remillard, “but we’re very keen to let businesses know just how important having security compliance certification is for websites”.

Based on Enterprise Grade security scanning software and methodologies, 54f3.com offers Commercial Grade web security scanning services for businesses using previously unattainable levels of functionality. Their service keeps web security vulnerabilities out of client’s websites and runs scans regularly to identify and eliminate any potential holes in web security that hackers could exploit.

Results from most scans that 54f3.com performs demonstrate that, on average, websites have at least 40, and sometimes more than 1,000, vulnerabilities in their security systems. One of 54f3.com’s most recent scans on a popular dating website revealed a staggering 1,400 vulnerabilities.

54f3.com is giving 1 month of free service for competitor conversions, so that customers can experience a solution that not only offers a 12-minute average scanning time, but also provides an automatically generated daily report that lets customers know where hackers can get in, and how they can solve the issues.

“54f3.com is doing for website security scanning solutions what Godaddy.com did for hosting and Tucows, Inc. did for domain names: we are making Enterprise-Grade Security Scanning Services more affordable and expanding the benefits to a larger class of people because of our sound pricing, engineering and automation skills”, adds Mr. Remillard.

After the latest security breach of the Pentagon’s computer systems, it is being widely encouraged for businesses to explore web security scanning software provided by companies such as 54f3.com. With their offer of a $0 set up fee and a cancel-at-any-time deal, webmasters and Internet experts are keen to stress the importance of reliable security compliance scanning solutions.

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Contact Information

Jason Remillard

Managing Director

54f3 Inc.

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