Opinions on PHP Security Software
Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 9:25 am
Hello,
I am currently developing a security panel written in PHP for improving the security of PHP-driven websites and web applications. At the moment I am trying to gather opinions on the ideas I have had and generally get feedback from the PHP developer community as to whether this idea should and could come to fruition as a business idea.
I have a few questions I would like to pose to you, with the aim that I can tailor the software to best suit the needs of developers with regards to creating additional security for their websites. Any and all feedback is welcome, and I appreciate any comments you might want to offer on my ideas.
The questions I would like to ask are:
- Would you be willing to buy this software in order to provide your website with additional protection against hackers, spammers and malware?
- What features would you like to see in such an application? (I have a number of ideas already, including GET, POST and FILES variable filtering, Email scrambling with javascript decoding, and mysql emulation for test-bed creation, but I would like to see what features active PHP developers would like to see.)
- Would you want access to an API for creating new modules, creating hooks in the existing modules, etc? If so, what functions would you want to be available to you through this?
- What price do you feel is fair for this form of protection? If you feel that this project should be nothing but FOSS, i'd like to hear about your opinion on this.
- Any additional comments are more than welcome.
Thank you for reading this, I am looking forward to hearing opinions on this as I have been building the concept for quite some time.
Alex
I am currently developing a security panel written in PHP for improving the security of PHP-driven websites and web applications. At the moment I am trying to gather opinions on the ideas I have had and generally get feedback from the PHP developer community as to whether this idea should and could come to fruition as a business idea.
I have a few questions I would like to pose to you, with the aim that I can tailor the software to best suit the needs of developers with regards to creating additional security for their websites. Any and all feedback is welcome, and I appreciate any comments you might want to offer on my ideas.
The questions I would like to ask are:
- Would you be willing to buy this software in order to provide your website with additional protection against hackers, spammers and malware?
- What features would you like to see in such an application? (I have a number of ideas already, including GET, POST and FILES variable filtering, Email scrambling with javascript decoding, and mysql emulation for test-bed creation, but I would like to see what features active PHP developers would like to see.)
- Would you want access to an API for creating new modules, creating hooks in the existing modules, etc? If so, what functions would you want to be available to you through this?
- What price do you feel is fair for this form of protection? If you feel that this project should be nothing but FOSS, i'd like to hear about your opinion on this.
- Any additional comments are more than welcome.
Thank you for reading this, I am looking forward to hearing opinions on this as I have been building the concept for quite some time.
Alex