Hacking is one of the biggest threats that today’s bloggers
and website owners fear about. It is not only a kind of business but a complete
market. It is an equal threat for both small and large businesses, thus you
require security even if you don’t own a very big business. Some hackers have
even hacked high security websites, of governments and big financial
institutions. So, in this tutorial we will provide you some of the basic
threats and their solutions. Just continue reading.
Security threats in an unsecured system
When we are talking about hacking and hackers, we firstly
need to discuss what the security risks in your website are and what you need
to take care about. These are the loopholes through which your websites can be
teared apart.
The threats are:
1.
The first security problem is the database. The
hackers can directly access your database and get your customer details. This
means that you are no longer a respected owner as customer data is leaked from
your websites. There are several methods to do that, of which the most famous
is the database sql injection. To protect you database you need to hide your
database accessibility from the external resources.
2.
The second threat is placing some inappropriate
data on your website. It may be some text or image or anything that can harm
your reputation and credibility. These are not taken seriously by most of the
website owners. Several methods are prominent among the hackers to do that, but
cross server scripting and use of some input fields which do not check for
scripts are used.
3.
Like computers virus can also harm your
website. So, if your website is not
secured hackers may enter the system and spread some virus which can damage
your website.
4.
One of the most dangerous problems is the
hacking of your email. Once they hack your email, your other accounts linked to
that email will be vulnerable and apart from that they can send some malicious
content to your customers. This would definitely harm your and your customer’s
security.
These were only few of the security issues but one thing
must be clear in your mind that if proper steps are not taken at right time you
and your business might be destroyed to some unrepairable extent.
How to protect your website
So now we will
discuss the simplest and best methods to protect your website. Though these
steps are simple but realy work for most of the times.
The techniques are:
Updating your Platform
According to surveys from most reputed agencies across the
world, more than 50% of the website are built on some or the other platforms or
content management systems (CMSs). The most common cms are Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla. So, to be safe on this platforms, you must
keep the platforms updated. This is because the providers always update the
security systems based on reviews and as the version gets old the hackers would
have known how to crack them. So, updating allows you to be safer than other
times. Moreover, this would enhance the functionality of your website and
provide some extra features.
Restricted upload
Uploading files is also a way of injecting some malicious
content or virus. Uploading may be provided for some files and profile pictures
and other photos on most of the websites but before saving them into the file
system, several things need to be taken care of. You must develop a system,
which can check the files for viruses and thus help you to be safe. Even if
they don’t contain virus you must verify whether the content is according to
your policies and thus you or your customer don’t enter into some problematic
conditions.
Webform checking
Imagine you have a form and the data taken from the form is
displayed on the website. Now, someone inserted some javascript code and you
don’t have validation system of the form. This may be harmful because it is the
most common type of technique to insert anything harmful into your website. So,
you forms and data from it must be validated.
Directory permission
Every system have one or the other directories only for
admins. These directories must be protected from others. Thus, directory
permissions must be set in such a way that these files and directories are not
shown to public.
SSL certification
Many big websites and companies use SSL security to ensure
encryption of the submitted data and thus preventing the data to be available
to corruption and to hackers.
Conclusion
These were some of the easy steps to save your website. Do
try them and best of Luck. Have some suggestion? Just contact us through
comment box. Thankyou.
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