McAfee® to Acquire ScanAlert
As you already know, Pleth partnered with ScanAlert a few years back. McAfee announced yesterday that it had finished it’s acquisition of ScanAlert’s HackerSafe product. There will be no immediate changes for our clients that utilize the HackerSafe products we offer. Here’s a snippet from McAfee’s corporate website. I haven’t been a huge fan of McAfee’s desktop products over the years but I have to say that this acquisition makes good sense. HackerSafe is one of the most recognized Trust marks on the web today. (source: McAfee® – about – McAfee to Acquire ScanAlert)
On Feb 7, McAfee, Inc. announced the acquisition of ScanAlert, Inc., creators of the HACKER SAFE® trust mark, the world’s leading provider of ecommerce Web site security services.
ScanAlert, with it’s HACKER SAFE technology protects over 75,000 web sites. In addition to being used by the majority of the Internet Retailer Top 500 list, it is the only trust mark displayed within the search results of major comparison shopping sites including PriceGrabber, Yahoo!® Shopping and Pronto.com. As a leading provider of PCI compliance services, ScanAlert also delivers multilingual PCI validation to merchants and payment processors in over 70 countries. Tens of thousands of organizations – from small online businesses to FORTUNE 500 multinationals – rely on ScanAlert to protect, audit and certify the security of their networks and ecommerce infrastructure.
HACKER SAFE provides shoppers with the confidence of the most trusted security seal in the world. By displaying the HACKER SAFE certification on their website, shoppers of ScanAlert customer sites instantly know that they are a secure web site and respond by buying more from them. Over 800 websites have published the results of A/B split tests with the HACKER SAFE seal, showing an average of 14% more sales from shoppers who see the seal.
For consumers, Web security is about protecting your personal information, your family and friends from cybercriminals while you search, surf and shop the Web.
For organizations providing safe and secure ecommerce and online transaction services, Web security is a critical element of their overall security risk management framework.
With this acquisition, McAfee now offers the industry’s first complete web security solution. ScanAlert’s HACKER SAFE trust mark complements McAfee SiteAdvisor Web rating system to deliver safe search, surf and shop.
Pleth Partners with ScanAlert (HackerSafe)
We recently partnered with ScanAlert, the company that handles the HackerSafe certification. We are now able to offer PCI and HIPAA Compliancy through this partnership for our hosting clients. ScanAlert has created a portal for us here: http://www.scanalert.com/content/webhost/?hostId=5490. (see official press release below)
Conway, Arkansas – August 04, 2006 PLETH, LLC, an Arkansas-Based Provider of High-End e-commerce solutions for some of today’s top online businesses, announced it had signed a channel distribution agreement with ScanAlert of Napa, CA, to resell HACKER SAFE® certification and sponsor ScanAlert’s PCI Compliance services.
Effectively immediately, PLETH’s customers can subscribe to HACKER SAFE, a daily online vulnerability scanning service for Web sites, at reduced rates by contacting their PLETH Account Representative directly. They can join tens of thousands of retailers around the world using HACKER SAFE to alleviate consumers’ fears about the security of online shopping. PLETH customers also can obtain ScanAlert’s PCI Compliance certification services in time to meet the mandatory June 30, 2005 deadline for demonstrating compliance as imposed by Visa and Mastercard.
“In the last 6 months alone, the US Government alone has had 4 hacker attacks that I know of where literally thousands of military families and government workers’ sensitive data was compromised and in one instance posted to the internet. This could have easily been prevented by a service such as HACKER SAFE ,” said PLETH, LLC Partner Cotton Rohrscheib. “By offering ScanAlert’s certification and PCI Compliance services to our customers, we’re helping them demonstrate essential security certifications on time and at minimal cost and disruption to their business.”
“PLETH has a solid position in the e-commerce industry, and HACKER SAFE is the only firm of it’s kind that we considered to bring in as a strategic partner. In fact, HACKER SAFE has also been chosen by the US Government to assist in monitoring the FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, and the Marine Corps. In addition, SCANALERT’s HACKER SAFE branding can also be found on over 55% of today’s top 400 websites,” added Greg Smart, Partner & Co-Founder of PLETH.
“Not only do we provide our clients and their customers with peace of mind, we have also learned that websites featuring the HACKER SAFE logo and certification have noticed a 14% increase in revenue across the board as well as meeting a variety of mandated and recommended government and industry data security standards,” added Smart.
About PLETH, LLC
PLETH, LLC provides comprehensive e-commerce, real estate, auto-industry and small business web development and hosting services as well as providing IT Consulting. PLETH, LLC is currently headquartered in Batesville, Arkansas but has a development studio opening in Conway, Arkansas in the very near future. For more information, visit www.pleth.com , or call toll-free: 1-888-276-0848.
About ScanAlert, Inc.
Headquartered in Napa, CA, ScanAlert is the world’s largest web site security certification company, protecting over 60,000 web sites in 30 countries through the HACKER SAFE certification program. The certification mark indicates that these sites protect the personal data of millions of shoppers every day by meeting the highest federal and industry web site security standards. ScanAlert’s easy-to-use and affordable PCI compliance service is available direct and through channel partners, including acquiring banks, web hosts, and payment gateways. For more information, please visit www.scanalert.com
