Online Security Tips
Nowadays Security is going to be an
ongoing challenge for not only hosting providers but also for us as users.
Here, we seek to highlight five easy tips to protect your website from hackers
in order to secure important data. Let us dive in and know how, shall we?
Keeping your software
updated
As a site owner, who has built a website
with the help of a web development team or on your own through a third party
platform, it is important that you ensure all the software on the website is
updated..
Building more layers
of security
Many hosting providers are upping the ante when it comes to
securing their hosting environment. For instance, cloud hosting providers have
started tightening the screws around WAFs (Web Application Firewalls) to
inspect incoming traffic, weed out malicious requests, protect the website from
SPAM, brute force attacks and cross site scripting. Earlier, WAFs mere mainly
available as hardware appliances but with technological advancements they have
been converted into Security-as-a-Service model.
Switching to HTTPS
HTTPS (HyperText Transfer Protocol
Secure) is a safe communications protocol that is used to transfer sensitive
information between websites and web servers. Once you move your website
to the HTTPS protocol, you are essentially adding a layer of TLS (Transport
Layer Security) or SSL to your HTTP making your users’ and your own data extra
secure. It is not necessary that HTTPS is a mandate for any online transaction.
Make admin directories tough to spot
Hackers are quite smart when it comes to finding routes to
access your site’s data. One point of entry is admin directories. Hackers use
scripts which scan directories on the web server for give way names such as
admin or login, only to enter the folders of your website. One way to protect
these files is to rename them by picking innocuous sounding names.
Using strong
passwords
This is one of the most important ways to secure your website
from getting hacked. Usage of strong passwords is not only suggested by the
platform provider but also by cloud hosting providers and other web hosting
providers. It is an effective strategy to not just mitigate but also eliminate
brute force and dictionary attacks.
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