This is great news for our future customers! Essential Systems have attained approved status and are now on the West Midlands Suppliers Register. What this means for you the customer is that if you go to the Business Link West Midlands and say you require a product or service to help your business grow they will fund half the cost of the project.
As approved suppliers we’re on the list of companies chosen by Business Link to help companies with their technical projects. Joining the supplier register required an approval process to ensure our company meets the required quality and legal guidelines set out for the register. In just 10 days Essential was approved and its a testement to the efficiency of the local Business Link service.
If you’re interested in a Business Link grant to help with your technical growth then get in touch.
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Google released a great new web security tool on Wednesday (2nd) which aims to help web developers tighten up the security of their web apps. It goes by the name RatProxy and as its name suggests it works by acting as a proxy between the browser and the site your viewing. In that position it can monitor all the communications between them and flag any potential concerns.
Its especially useful for discovering cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and its being used actively at Google for their own systems. We plan on using it here at Essential on all our existing and future web apps to add another tool to the security arsenal.
Other security tools we’d recommend are:
- Nikto - Web server security scanner.
- ProxMon & WebScarab - Python proxy analyser for pen-testing web servers and the proxy itself.
- Nessus - A hugely comprehensive network security analysis program.
If you didn’t already know two of the members of the Essential Systems team are keen runners and the results of their first 5 mile race in the Centurion Grand Prix are now in.
Steve Feeney: 42:16
Doug Bromley: 43:49
March 2nd is the next in the grand prix series at the same location near Solihull. A race which is sure to have Doug coming in before Steve!
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