| An effective website navigates easily and loads quickly, not
hanging because your visitor's bandwidth isn't broad enough or
your server is suffering from high traffic loads. An effective
website looks good at all monitor resolutions, on all computer
systems, whether MAC or PC, and works well under all operating
systems and browsers. That's effective. Clean, fast, pure, and
applying the KISS principle.
SAFETY COMES FIRST AT ZENTAO
If it isn't as safe as possible, we don't do it.
One of the things that keeps us from diving headlong into the
"latest, greatest solution" that presents itself as a
new, viable development in web applications is the fact that,
usually, the development is "buggy" or has yet-to-be-discovered
security issues. Buggy means that it has spots where the
development fails to work correctly for users, and security
issues go part and parcel with new because they haven't suffered
the attacks of crackers whom, despite the bad raps they get, are
the very people responsible for making the application developers
smarter about what and where vulnerabilities exist in their
programming.
Purely, if the application is interactive, that application is
also exploitable. If it is built so that someone can enter
information and send that information through the server to
somewhere else, then a savvy individual can utilize it to carry
out hostile intent.
The older, more proven applications have suffered years of
"assault under live conditions." If they have survived,
they are more secure than ever, which means that your website,
using that application, is less vulnerable to hostile exploits
that can mar, disable, or destory it.
So which applications are safe? Older technology that has been
in the line of fire for years and still stands without fail.
Oracle has fallen; Windows and ASP is wide open; .php and MySQL
are riddled with exploitable holes; .JS and JAVA delivery are
frought with hazards for website and visitor alike; many cgi and
perl apps, likewise, have severe, restrictive vulnerabilites.
What does that leave? A few hard, tight programs, and the ability
to know how, where, and how much to allow when using known,
vulnerable applications.
We test, retest, and code out what we can. Does that mean it's
absolutely inviolate? No. We reiterate: If it is interactive,
it's exploitable. What we do is make it as safe as possible,
though. And we make lots of back-ups so that, if your site goes
down, it's back up within hours.
One thing we do make sure of: Your data and your customer's
data is as secure as it possibly can be given the internet medium.
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2005 zentao.com, DLKeur and FW Lineberry. All
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