Introduction
Think about your average website. How many pages do you think it serves? If it’s a small website (like someone’s personal website for their brick-and-mortar business), maybe 5-10 pages capture everything that the website owner has to say. Now think bigger. News sites, forums, websites of large enterprises… These websites can serve tens of thousands, if not millions of web pages.
Each of these pages is likely to contain links to the outside world (i.e. links to other websites and content stored on remote servers). Whether the website owner is linking to pages on other sites, or JavaScript code on a Content Distribution Network, he is trusting those remote servers for that content.
Perhaps that trust was appropriate when the link was established, but is it still appropriate today? Do the links from that 2015 blog post of yours, still point to the same content they pointed to ten years ago? Could it be that some time in the last ten years, that domain name expired and was re-registered by a malicious actor?
We are willing to bet that no one has an accurate picture of their link-related attack surface. Yet each and every one of these links can expose one’s users to malware, NSFW content, or simply redirect them to your competition.
LinkSentry solves this problem. LinkSentry is the first comprehensive link auditing system for the web. Using crowdsourcing, LinkSentry maps the linking attack surface of your site, revealing all the links that your website has accumulated over the years. It then continuously monitors these links and flags broken, malicious, and otherwise unwanted links, according to your preferences.
Discover your links today and protect your users and your site’s reputation!
LinkSentry Highlights
- LinkSentry supports 15+ link-monitoring policies. It will not just find broken links (like broken-link checkers) but links that point to:
- NSFW content
- Malicious sites
- Unpopular sites
- Expired domains
- Sites with bad TLS certificates
- Sites situated in unwanted geo-locations
- Domains that were recently registered
- Domains that recently changed hands
- LinkSentry uses crowdsourcing to do link discovery. Forget clunky crawlers that get stuck on your login page. Add LinkSentry’s JS snippet on your website and turn your users into monitoring sensors for your links. If your users can reach a page with a bad link, LinkSentry will find it!
- LinkSentry is easy to use. Once you install LinkSentry’s JS code on your website, you can forget about it. You will receive weekly reports with your links, 24/7 access to a dedicated dashboard showing you links and violations, and Slack updates (depending on your tier of service) whenever a new link violation occurs.
- LinkSentry is safe to use. LinkSentry operates in a read-only fashion on your site. It will not change your site or break your site. It will just continuously monitor your external links and warn you whenever it discovers a link that needs your attention.
Key Features
- LinkSentry is web-application agnostic.
- Is your site a WordPress site? Great! You can adopt LinkSentry in less than 5 minutes.
- How about another CMS? No problem! Add the LinkSentry JavaScript snippet in your CMS and you are off to the races.
- Is your website completely custom made? LinkSentry is for you. As long as you can add our JavaScript to all the pages that you want monitored, we don’t care what technology powers your website.
- Transparent Pricing. You know all the cybersecurity tools that want you to call sales before they tell you how much it costs? You don’t need to call anyone at LinkSentry. We offer three tiers of service, with higher tiers giving you access to more link-monitoring policies and higher monitoring quotas. Do you want something custom? Drop us an email and let us build you the link-monitoring solution of your dreams.
- Free trials. Not sure if LinkSentry is for you? Try us out! LinkSentry integrates with Stripe to offer you a one-week free trial before your credit card is charged. Cancel it before it and the link audit is on us. The secret: we know you’ll love LinkSentry and you’ll stay.
Conclusion
Unlike diamonds, links are not forever. Over time, linked pages can break, remote servers can get compromised, and domains can expire and be picked up by malicious actors. LinkSentry continuously and automatically audits the links on your website, to protect you and your users from bad remote content. Let LinkSentry flag bad links on your site before your users get compromised. Start a link-audit today!
