From 1318a82434e727f47a45a7fb7eb888417c88ef22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Wanstrath Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:59:48 -0700 Subject: ngenuity --- _posts/2009-06-23-security.markdown | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/_posts/2009-06-23-security.markdown b/_posts/2009-06-23-security.markdown index b0be78a..656ebae 100644 --- a/_posts/2009-06-23-security.markdown +++ b/_posts/2009-06-23-security.markdown @@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ We protect your login from brute force attacks with rate limiting. All password We keep a security consultant on retainer to help identify and prevent new attack vectors. We always test new features in order to cut out potential attacks, such as XSS-protecting wikis, and ensuring that Pages cannot access cookies. +In July 2010 we contracted [nGenuity Information Security](http://www.ngenuity-is.com/), an acclaimed security firm, to perform a week long penetration test of GitHub. We are committed to ongoing audits from reputable third parties such as nGenuity. + We're extremely concerned and active about security, but we're aware that many companies are not comfortable hosting code outside their firewall. For these companies we offer our [Firewall Install](http://fi.github.com/), a version of GitHub that can be installed to a server within the company's network. Credit card safety -- cgit v1.3.1