How to Secure Your Website? In this article we will discuss some of the methods that we can use to secure our sites form such unforeseen attacks. The methods to increase our website security are listed hereafter.
Website security is a major concern for everyone today. These h*cking attacks are unpredictable and may happen at any given point of time. Currently, an attack happens every 39 seconds in the United States that affects one in three Americans yearly. This alone is enough reason for us to protect our site and our clients data form breach during such attacks. Above all, it’s very important for us to know how we can prevent such attacks and protect our site form harm.
Ways to Secure Your Website
- Keep your apps and plugins updated
Outdated software’s and plugins are one of the easy back doors for h*ckers to get into our system. There are many potential sites and bots constantly scanning the internet for such vulnerability to launch an attack. Here, updates include many security fixes and vulnerability fixes that are important for the health and security of our sites. As such, we should always consider all security and plugin updates seriously as the longer we wait, the more risk we’ll be in. similarly, updates also bring new features that may increase the functionality of our sites as well.
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Pick a Secure Password
There are many sites and platforms that require users to login through their user ids and passwords. Generally, people prefer to choose a single password for all those numerous platforms for their convenience. Such acts drastically compromise our security as one password gives them access to all of our accounts. Here, we should never use the same passwords twice or give others access to ours. Our passwords should contain at least 14 digits with a mixture of numbers, symbols, upper and lower cases etc. Similarly, it’s best to change our passwords every 3 months or so. As a business owner or site manager, we should instruct our employees to change their passwords frequently.
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Choose a secure Web host
A web host simply means the physical space where our site lives. It’s a physical server that contains all the essential parts of our site and provides them to all visitors. Here, a secure web host can drastically improve our sites security without much effort. There are many Web hosts available and they all provide various feature sets and functionalities. Considering this, we have listed some of the things to check before choosing one for our site.
- Availability of Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
- Use of Rootkit Scanner
- Existence of Backup services
- Manner of timely Security Updates
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Create Proper and Timely Backup of the Website
A good backup solution is a must for the longevity of any website. If possible, it’s ideal to have more than one backup tool at place, in case one fails. They are very crucial for recovering our site in the event of an attack or breach. We should try to keep our valuable information off-site, ideally on our personal computer or a separate hard disk. However, it’s not ideal to store backups in the same server as the site. This increases risk and may also result in the loss of the backup data as well. Similarly, it’s a great idea to automate the backups in timely manner to a reliable recovery system.
- Web Application Firewall
Web application firewall is an excellent method to secure our site from any or all external attacks or breach. Here, it filters, monitors, inspects and blocks various HTTPs traffic that comes to and from our site and prevents various attacks. Furthermore, it can also filter various unnecessary like bots and scammers as well. Considering this, we should always make sure to apply for Web Application Firewall (WAF) for maximum possible security. Fortunately, most WAF’s are cloud based and feature plug-and-play functionality.
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