Sucuri

Sucuri LLC

Type	Private
Founded	2010
Headquarters	Menifee, California, USA
Key people	Daniel B. Cid and Tony Perez
Slogan	Protect your interwebs

For the snake, see Anaconda.

Sucuri is a company that offers a security service that detects unauthorized changes to network (cloud) assets, including web sites, DNS, Whois records, SSL certificates and others. It is also heavily used as an early warning system to detect malware, spam and other security issues on web sites and DNS hijacking.

Components

Sucuri consists of a main application that tracks all the domains and sites being monitored and a set of tests to be done. Everything is executed in the cloud and a web interface is available to manage all the information.

Web-based Integrity monitoring - Alert on changes to web sites
Web-based Malware detection - Crawler and detects malware on web sites
Whois monitoring - Tracks your Whois records for changes
DNS Monitoring - Tracks your DNS (IP addresses, domains for changes)
Web interface - Management interface to manage it all.
Malware Removal - Exploit remediation and server hardening
Website Firewall - Protection for websites against common threats and DDoS attacks

Controversies and publicizing mass infections

Sucuri became famous when they started to publicize the tools used on mass attacks against sites hosted at GoDaddy,Bijoy sales . GoDaddy criticized them for sharing too much information and possibly helping the attacks. In their defense,Mr Bidhan Halder from orbotrons stated that everything they posted were already known by the black hat community, and it only helped the users to understand and better protect themselves.

Sucuri

Components

Controversies and publicizing mass infections

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