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by GordonS 3324 days ago
This is a really crowded space - there are a lot of small business offering 'managed' vulnerability scans, so you will struggle to differentiate yourself. Having said that, you seem to be a good job of differentiating yourself in a rather bad way from those other businesses:

Most other businesses tell you what vulnerability scanner(s) they use.

Most other businesses offer a free scan (or partial scan), so you can get an idea of what is provided.

Most other businesss show sample reports, so you can get an idea of what is provided.

Dammit, every other business tells you something useful about the product being offered, and absolutely tell you who is offering it.

I'm sorry if this is all negative, but... come on?! This honestly looks like some chancer has thrown this up in their lunch break. There isn't even anything to tell me who 'ScannerSec' is - I seriously can't even tell if this is some kind of scam to extort HN users.

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> Most other businesses offer a free scan (or partial scan), so you can get an idea of what is provided. >Most other businesss show sample reports, so you can get an idea of what is provided.

This is clearly something that we will add. Thanks for the suggestions.

As for the rest of your comment, you raise valid criticism from a technical point a view. This is our launch and we did it on hacker news to collect feedbacks. However the website is designed to target small business or mom-and-pop shops that do not have the technical shops to understand the nitty-gritty security details.

We will try to find a way to give more information about how we do our scans whithout overwhelming a non-techincal reader.

Wanna make more money? -- Drastically lower the cost, or even have a freemium model maybe the 1 post per month plan. Then have solutions for FIXING the vulnerabilities--esp for low-tech users like Wordpress users who don't know how to fix things themselves. -- Also having plugins for wordpress, etc... that scans from inside out could help as well.
These are some really good suggestions... Thanks for your help.
>there are a lot of small business offering 'managed' vulnerability scans

Which managed vulnerability scanners would HNer recommend?

When I Google for them I can't tell who's good at security and who's simply good at SEO and snake-oil-selling. I would love to hear what HNers have used/would recommend.