On 3/28/2015 12:00 PM, discuss-requ...@blu.org wrote: > So why the lack of SaaS offerings? Is it due to technical reasons or > because of fear of liability? (A search did turn up > https://www.qualys.com/; I can't find pricing on their site.) It sure > seems like there ought to be a market for this.
For websites, https://detectify.com/ has launched recently. It feels like they would naturally expand to cover network surveys as well, in time. They have a SaaS model and offer transparent pricing for small businesses. Acunetix also offers "as a service" nmap scans, I think. Liability would be a concern (how, for example, would you prove to a 3rd party that you own the IP range submitted for scanning?), as well as potentially breaking the ToS of the hosting service (Amazon requires preapproval of any pentesting, as I seem to recall from skimming their policies). From the business risk perspective of starting a service like this, looking only at Qualys they have 50-ish patents related to the field, including things like "a security scanner" and "a dashboard for a security status from a mobile device". Yours, -- Max _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss