Those that follow our blog and things we do online know that we take security very seriously. This is one of the reasons that we are (AFAIK) the ONLY Joomla Developer/Consultant that has an Extended Validation SSL Certificate (EV SSL) on their site (This means that someone in a position of authority, digicert in our case, have verified that we are who we say we are by researching our legal status, business, accounts and business relationships!) It really is a symbol of assurance of our identity and commitment to security.
Furthermore we subscribe to the very expensive daily scanning by McAfee Secure (Formally ScanAlert HackerSafe Mark). This scans our sites, servers and infrastructure daily to identify issues. This is what gives us the PCI Certification standard – meaning that VISA and Mastercard allow us to directly accept payments on our servers (although we personally dont, some hosting customers do).
We also use mod_security, complex passwords, ssh key login and a load more security procedures on our servers.
(Note: This is not an invitation to try and hack us
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The reason for this post was to unveil a way of communicating with us in a secure manner. We understand that for whatever reasons, some people just dont “get” encrypting emails, or dont have time to understand this, or what GPG is… well GPG is a way to encrypt text with someones public key so only THEY can decrypt it.
You can now do this in a simple secure way over EV SSL at:
https://secure.phil-taylor.com/encrypt
The output of this form can then be emailed direct to us to read. Meaning you can now send us sensitive information by email – if you so wish