Let me begin by stating that I have nothing against SiteLock. I have had a number of conversations with some of their people and they’ve been respectful.
However, according to people I have spoken with at various hosting companies, SiteLock has them sign agreements that prohibit them from suggesting any other security service. These employees are threatened with termination if they recommend any other security service.
Is that unethical?
I don’t know. I really don’t care.
What I do care about is removing malware from websites.
Since January 1, 2017, I have spoken with many of our new customers. Every one of them has told me the same thing,
“More people need to know about your service. The hosting companies are pushing their customers to contact SiteLock.”
If you would like to help us, tell your friends, neighbors, business associates, customers and anyone else you know. Tweet about us (@wewatch)
| Functionality | WeWatchYourWebsite | SiteLock | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Root cause analysis | Yes! | No | This is critical. If you don't know how your site was infected, how will you know what to do to prevent it from happening again? |
| Signature based detection | Yes | Yes | SiteLock uses ClamAV. We wrote our own scanner. |
| Anomaly Detection | Yes | No | |
| Behavior Detection | Yes | No | |
| Machine Learning Detection | Yes | No | |
| Malware removal | Yes | Yes | |
| Protection | Sound security principles | Firewall (Incapsula's) | They "white-label" Incapsula's firewall |
| Frequency of scans | Once every 4 hours | Once a day | |
| Type of monitoring | Raw files | External | |
| Notification details | Root cause, list of files | Must login to dashboard | |
| Log file monitoring | Yes | No | The provides us with information for root cause analysis and various malicious traffic trends |
| Fee | $39.95 for all sites on a shared hosting account | Depends on the hosting provider, but is separate fee for each website | One time cleaning for one website is $199.95 for SiteLock |
| Fee based | All websites on a shared hosting account | Fee for each website |
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