Get the most advanced live chat technology on the market. When you choose WhosOn as your ChatBeacon alternative, you choose smarter features, a sharper security focus, and superior flexibility. All for a better price.
Smarter features
WhosOn has a vast suite of over 100 sophisticated live chat features. ChatBeacon offers expected live chat functionality, but fewer high-end options.
Sharper security focus
Features aside, WhosOn is also the optimum ChatBeacon alternative in terms of security.
| ChatBeacon | WhosOn | |
|---|---|---|
| Cyber Essentials Plus certified | Undisclosed | Yes |
| FSQS accredited | Undisclosed | Yes |
| Session security | Undisclosed | Connections are secured over an initial 2048-bit RSA exchange followed by an exchange of, at minimum, a 128-bit session key, produced through an SHA-256 certificate. |
| Encryption procedure | Undisclosed | The visitor to server connection uses HTTPS encryption. The client to server connection uses custom encryption methodology. |
| Blacklisting options | Undisclosed | Automatic blacklisting of IPs that repeatedly fail to authenticate. Option to manually add problem users to the IP blacklist. |
| Whitelisting options | Undisclosed | The internal chat interface and internal gateway interface only accept connections from whitelisted hosts. |
| Safeguarding | Undisclosed | Weekly vulnerability scans plus annual third-party penetration tests. |
