How to Secure Your Website From Safety Risks and Harmful Attacks

The world wide web has ushered in numerous innovative means of doing things. Moreover, it has also become a source of convenience for completing daily essential and leisurely tasks and activities.

It’s common knowledge, though, that the world wide web is prone to cyber-attacks. Your website, in particular, is one of the components of the internet that can be targeted for such harmful attacks.

In this article, our a boutique travel and lifestyle public relations agency has teamed up with Webster Solutions, to provide helpful tips on how to secure your site’s safety.

Read on below: 

Update Your Software and Plug-in tools To Their Latest Versions 
Keeping your software and plug-ins up to date not only offers innovativeness and ease of use. Updated versions of software and plug-in tools usually have security features in them.

So, don’t ever get the thought that updating your software and plug-ins is unnecessary. Avoid having regrets in the future. Always be prepared in combatting possible safety issues. Investing time in updating these tools in place of putting your website’s safety at risk is worth it. 

Make Use of HTTPS and SSL Certificates 
Having a safe URL is one of the paramount prerequisites to keeping your website safe. Your website needs HTTPS in securing the data visitors transmit through your home page. HTTPS is Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure.

HTTPS is a protocol that avoids the occurrence of interferences and interruptions while the information or data is being sent to the other party. SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer.

SSL is the source that’s utilized in transferring data from your home page and your website’s database. SSL encrypts data to avoid having other parties access it while it’s being sent in between the website and its database. 

Use a Password That’s Hard to Guess 
Your website can be secured via means of a log-in page. Choose a password for your site’s log-n page that won’t normally be associated with you. Picking a password that’s hard to guess may require you to be creative. 

Utilize a Safe Web Host 
Your site’s web host is like a shelter that protects your home page and its sub-parts. With this said, it’s no surprise that your web host is the provider of security systems for your server. These systems safe keep the data uploaded on your website. 

SFTP or Secure File Transfer Protocol with username, rootkit scanner, backup services for files, and safety tools updates enhance the security of your web host. 

The Utilization of Record User Access and Administrative Privileges 
Don’t take it for granted that your business’ employees are experts in using and accessing your website. Many employees are amateurs when it comes to utilizing online security features.

To stay on the safe side, create a record for your site’s administrative systems. Don’t forget to update this record regularly, as well. 

Modify Your CMS Default Systems 
Automatic system attacks are usually the kinds of cyber terrorism that websites incur. Attack bots usually prey on websites’ CMS (content management systems) features placed on default status.

After you set up your site’s CMS, modify the defaulted features right away. Modifying these features is one of the means to avoid giving leads for cyber attackers to access your data or attack your website. 

Give a Backup for Your Website 
Having more than one backup source minimizes the risks of security attacks on your website. What your backup source does is that it recovers your website and the latter’s components, if, and after a serious cyber-attack issue has occurred. 

One of the means of creating a backup for your website is to maintain its data off-site. Avoid safekeeping your backup sources on the server where your website runs. Safely keep your site’s backup sources on a home computer or hard drive folder.

Off-site storage is where you can safely keep your information, and, secure it from a hardware malfunction, hack, malware, and other viruses. The other means of securing a website backup is to store your data in a cloud drive. A cloud drive is where you access data from any device, and in any location. 

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By Vishal Dudhal, partner, Webster Solutions and consultant for Allen Marketing Communications, Inc.
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