March 5, 2007 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting control panel provider cPanel (cpanel.net) announced on Monday it has partnered with Internet security auditor ScanAlert (scanalert.com) to provide HACKER SAFE certification and payment card industry data security standard validation services.
CPanel says ScanAlert will initially provide free services to validate e-commerce merchants to the PCI DSS as well as discounted services to certify Web sites to the HACKER SAFE standard. The companies' engineering teams have also started working on phase two, the integration of ScanAlert's security auditing technology into cPanel's Web hosting and server control and automation software suite.
"cPanel has always been driven by innovation and market demand, and this partnership illustrates yet again our responsiveness to customer demand," says David Koston, operations manager at cPanel. "ScanAlert will provide the Web hosting community with sophisticated tools merchants need to safely and effectively succeed online in an ever-changing and dangerous landscape."
