cPanel Inc. Partners With ScanAlert

5th March 2007

Provides HACKER SAFE certification and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard validation services.

cPanel Inc. , a web host automation technology provider, has partnered with Internet security auditor ScanAlert to provide HACKER SAFE certification and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) validation services to its web hosting clients, and their ecommerce merchants.

ScanAlert will initially provide free services to validate ecommerce merchants to the PCI DSS as well as discounted services to certify websites to the HACKER SAFE standard. The companies engineering teams have also started working on phase two, the integration of ScanAlerts 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. ScanAlert will provide the webhosting community with sophisticated tools merhants need to safely and effectively succeed online in an ever-changing and dangerous landscape," said Operations Manager, David Koston.