First certificate authority to provide a complete automated security solution to encrypt, scan, clean, monitor, patch, backup, and restore websites
The typical cost of a malware and web-based attack on a business is $1.4M (Accenture study), yet despite having destructive malware attacks up 200% in 2019, a large number of business websites remain susceptible to attacks. Sectigo, the world’s largest commercial Certificate Authority (CA), is certainly taking an industry-leading step to greatly help businesses safeguard themselves from latest and rising web-centered threats with the launch of Sectigo Web Security Platform.
The platform automates daily web-site backups so that customers can restore their sites when required with just one click of a button. Coming in potential releases are advanced functionalities to accelerate website performance with a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Domain Name System (DNS), and also to boost security with a Web Application Firewall (WAF). With this release, Sectigo certainly is the first CA to introduce an all-in-one, cloud-based solution bundled with TLS/SSL certificates to ensure that customers can easily identify threats and quickly patch vulnerabilities for his or her CMS from an all-new comprehensive administration portal. Through the platform, clients can automate daily scanning for vulnerabilities, receive proactive notifications, and immediately remove the malware discovered within the code, database, or data files on the web server.
“Our research regularly points to security as the main section of concern for businesses working to optimize their cloud existence,” stated Fernando Montenegro, Principal Analyst at 451 Research. “Expanding security coverage, leveraging automation, and consolidating web security efficiency into fewer suppliers are strategies that lots of organizations, particularly people that have significant resource constraints, may reap the benefits of exploring. Sectigo’s move to offering additional solutions beyond traditional certificate services matches well into this narrative.
Sectigo has enabled customers to easily select the functionality they need from product bundles available through Sectigo retail sites, hosting partners, and other resellers. “Thus, the new Sectigo Web Security Platform brings new capabilities to SSL clients, reflecting the increasing requirement for companies to move beyond basic encryption to ensure complete website security. The new product bundles include:
- Sectigo Web Monitor – Available with all SectigoSSL, PositiveSSL, and InstantSSL certificates, includes:
- Sectigo Web Detect – Automatically scans up to five website pages once daily for critical security issues such as malicious infections, spam listings, vulnerabilities, blacklisting, and more.
- Malware Detection – Stops search engines from blacklisting a website by proactively sending alerts about security issues before crawlers detect them.
- Vulnerability Detection – Monitors a website daily for security vulnerabilities found n the following Content Management Systems (CMS): WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, WooCommerce, PrestaShop, and Magento.
- SPAM and Blacklist Monitoring – Scans a website’s IP address and domain name daily against multiple spam databases and delivers alerts about potential email blacklisting.
- Sectigo Web Detect – Automatically scans up to five website pages once daily for critical security issues such as malicious infections, spam listings, vulnerabilities, blacklisting, and more.
- Sectigo Web Remediate – Available with the all-new SectigoSSL Pro certificates, includes:
- Enhanced Sectigo Web Detect – Increases scanning for up to 500 website pages and databases.
- Sectigo Web Clean – Safeguards a website against cybercriminals and other online security threats, automatically removing active infections from website files and any MySQL database without disrupting site functionality.
- Sectigo Web Patch – Scans daily to automatically detect critical weaknesses found in the company’s content management system (CMS) or database and proactively patches these vulnerabilities before cybercriminals can exploit them. Security patches are automatically deployed when new CMS versions are released for 7 of the most popular WordPress plugins, enabling website owners to complete full-version updates within their designated timelines. Plugins include: Contact Form 7, Yoast SEO, Jetpack, All-in-one SEO Pack, TinyMCE, Google XML Sitemaps, WordPress Importer, and Easy WP SMTP. Sectigo Web Patch also protects a company’s most valuable online assets from cybercriminals by automatically patching security vulnerabilities found in leading ecommerce platforms, including WooCommerce, Magento, and PrestaShop.
- Sectigo Web Backup and Restore – Reverses damage caused to a website through a one-click restore option. Utilizing sophisticated version control software, Web Backup and Restore provides incremental agent-less backups and empowers users to oversee their network of websites—with any mix of CMSs—all in one place.
With this release, our certificates provide even more value to consumers and present the world a whole new way to consider Certificate Authorities and the security offerings provided to our channel associates and collective clients,” stated Michael Fowler, President of Channel Companions, Sectigo. Site owners and organizations in all sizes must start looking beyond an SSL certificate to safeguard against latest and emerging threats.
“Sectigo’s innovative Web Security Platform offers opportunities for our partners all over the world to distinguish themselves from competitors, while increasing income and maintaining client retention by offering multiple solutions via an easy-to-use, single API,” added Mr. Fowler.
Availability
Sectigo Web Monitor and Sectigo Web Remediateproducts are offered today with the acquisition of a Sectigo SSL certificate, with Sectigo Web Perform and Sectigo Web Full Package coming later on in Q1. Site owners and administrators can sign up to the web security services on Sectigo.com, Positivessl.com, or Instantssl.com, and also through an increasing number of authorized Sectigo hosting companies and resellers.
To find out more about the Sectigo Web Security Platform, visit www.sectigo.com.
About Sectigo
Sectigo provides award-winning automated PKI management methods to protect websites, connected devices, applications, and digital identities. As the biggest commercial Certificate Authority, trusted by enterprises globally for much more than 20 years, and a lot more than 100 million SSL certificates released in over 200 countries, Sectigo has got the proven efficiency and know-how to meet up the growing demands of securing today’s digital landscape. For more information, visit www.sectigo.com.
