Web sites that pass the tests are awarded with NCSA's Web-certification seal, intended to give customers and other users increased confidence that security is an important consideration at the site. Many in the industry characterize the NCSA's Web certification as simply another option in the burgeoning industry of Web-site risk assessment. The Big Six accounting firms, as well as vendors such as Trusted Information Systems Inc., also offer to check Web sites for security problems. It won't hurt, but it will just be another piece of evidence. Of more relevance is what a company's competitors are doing to secure their sites.
Many lawyers versed in technology law agree.
Arent Fox, a law firm in Washington. But Lupo said policy development and enforcement, as well as active deployment of security technology, is more important. Even if NCSA certification became an industry standard, most observers say it wouldn't guarantee companies had taken due care. The plaintiff has the right to show that the certification standards are not reasonable in such an instance. It's not continuous.