The reason behind the call to secure our websites and servers is diversified. The threats that have been encountering by different websites might be various and incomparable — the security measures used by various websites also different. According to the nature and the prominence of the websites, their challenges, and proneness to get victimized will be higher.
Varied is the reason to secure our business or service website. It not always only about the data and the transactions that we deal through our site and network but also our servers, our domain, and our reputation and so on.
Today, the world is moving with the maximum agility with the best tech-heads. Meanwhile, the profusion of technology has made many of the nightmares that our business and the online world have been facing these days.
Security is one of the top menaces that has been prevailing since the dawn of this digital world. Moreover, the threats have been changing and proliferating each day significantly. As new technology evolves a new threat is tagging along with that.
Those threats are different in shape, size, and color either. The online trespassers are numerous today, and their wicked motives are also different. There was a time when so-called hackers are particularly working and roving around the websites and the servers to steal our data, customer credentials, and business information. However, as time passes their motives also get changed by far. Now-a-day they are working on hijack our servers to use for their crooked schemes and as their email relay. Moreover, they are trying to use our infrastructure and technology for illegal purposes either.
But, please gave no space to worry, we have some options to protect us from those cybercriminals.
Let’s see, some of the best measures to safeguard us.
The loops in software
Softwares are life-breath of our machines. Without it the machines remain machines, it cannot function at all. Also, the software is essential to control and operates our machines as well.
Our operating system, website, plugins, security measure everything comes under the term software. So, I hope we know its importance.
Every software has been made at the possible degree of security and has been aired after numerous trials, so they release updates often. But, there are chances of some loophole that lurks under the codes. But, the hacker is dexterous to figure out this loops and take advantage over it. So updating the software whether it is our operating systems or additional website management plugins are necessary for safeguard our website and networks.
Many of the website owners miss it always. The might be busy with building business links and leads every time. However, when they realize that they are in drowning ship it becomes too late.
So just keep an eye over your website and OS and all software that involves in your operations and never forget to update and replace if a better is available.
Network Security
One of the most used corridor that most of the hackers and looters peep into our website is the network. They will find a gap to seep into the network and record all the communications and transactions on our systems and servers as well.
You may come across several times that Google warns you not to enter the site. It will in from us that the website that we can about to enter is not secured. To put it simply, that website does not have an SSL certificate. And, Google is informing the user that, there are chances to get victimized for cyber looting or similar incidents.
An SSL certificate is a most important and now mandatory measure that a website required to keep themselves and the customers safe.
SSL certificate is nothing but a protocol that will encrypt the data and files and all communications between the user and the server. It protects the transactions and data file passing across a network.
There are diverse types of SSL certificate such as EV SSL certificate, Wildcard SSL certificate, etc… Each of them did the same functions but advanced in some features.
In EV SSL certificate vary from others regarding the appearance of certificate and the identity verification that can cater. It is more required for the e-commerce website that is dealing with money transactions.
Complex password and Strong password
We all know how to draw out a password. It is easy and doesn’t take more than a few minutes, right?
However, there is a difference between a complex password and a strong password. The practice of using a strong password is always recommended to upkeep the security of our websites admin pages and server control pages as well.
Mostly every time we are asked to creating a strong password with minimum of eight characters, user upper and lower character, use some symbols, etc.. the intention is to secure our website or page tightly. And if possible encrypt your passwords as well.
SQL injection
Attackers try all the possible ways to intrude into our premises. So, SQL is a prone area where they can find a chance. When you are using standard SQL we may insert rouge codes onto the query then can let them change tables, drew the information and delete our data either.
And it is easy to fend off all these vulnerable possibilities by using parametrized queries.
There are lot more measures that we can employ to prevent hackers and attackers such as XSS defender toolbox, validation of server and browser system, refraining from letting the user to upload files, etc.. And we can find more remedies while facing different sort of threat on the go.
But never forget the basic security measures that you have to implement on your website or server. Especially like an SSL certificate, Strong Password, Software Update, etc.. If we fail at the strengthen itself, our chance to get victimized will be more.
So, update your machines always with the best measures and have a seamless business operation.
