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Tonus
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 WEBSITE SECURITY
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We are an IT Security firm in Africa, presently some of our clients websites are under attack from hackers. I need to know how I can get professionsl IT security to help us carry vulnerability test and penetrating test on our client's website to help beef-up security.

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ASKED: September 6, 2009  4:39 AM
UPDATED: September 8, 2009  1:28 PM
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There are many companies that could do this for you, just Google and you will get a load of hits. You may find the following article useful, it gives some information on free tools that enable you to do most of this work yourself. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9087439/Five_free_pen_testing_tools
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This is the sort of thing I do for a living and would be glad to talk offline (contact info at http://www.principlelogic.com). If web apps, security, and penetration testing are not your forte, using some basic scanning tools is only going to be of limited value. Best of luck whatever you end up doing!

KevinBeaver
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Sorry, I forgot URLs aren’t automatically hyper-linked. My site is http://www.principlelogic.com.

KevinBeaver
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OK, I give up. you can see the URL in my original response above. BTW, check out TechTarget’s SearchSoftwareQuality.com (that’s searchsoftwarequality -dot – com) for some good web security resources.

KevinBeaver
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