Heise is offering IT Security consulting for free. But should you trust them?

Posted By: Sorin Mustaca December 3, 2014

Heise created a portal for companies to assess their IT security.

Details can be found here: https://www.heise-consulter.de/

You don’t have to register to take part of the survey which assesses your company’s security.

If you want anonymity, check this page.

It is important to mention who sponsored the initiative: Sophos, Baramundi, GateProtect, Fortinet, Microsoft, Telekom and others. So, I think we can expect a not-so-independent opinion about your security standpoint. But, hey, it is better than nothing !

However, the first thing you see when you go to the page is this:

Come on Heise… you have good sponsors, do a proper testing.

The funny thing is that the problem above occurs only when using Chrome and IE.

Firefox doesn’t report anything strange with the certificate.

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Sorin Mustaca

Sorin Mustaca, (ISC)2 CSSLP, CompTIA Security+ and Project+, is working since year 2000 in the IT Security industry and worked between 2003-2014 for Avira as Product Manager for the known products used by over 100 million users world-wide. Today he is an independent IT Security Consultant focusing on Cybersecurity, secure software development and security for IoT and Automotive. He is also running his personal blog Sorin Mustaca on Cybersecurity and is the author of the free eBook Improve your security .