Security Tips for your Website

Posted by Paul Kozar on: 2006-05-25 20:05:34

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Believe it or not, a total of seventy five percent attacks are done in cyber space. All such attacks are targeted to infiltrate web site shopping-carts, log-in pages, forms, as well as web site content.

Since website applications continuously up for the whole twenty four hours of a day and in all seven days of the week, they therefore become so easily vulnerable to any and all types of hackers who want to intrude as well as get a piece from details entered in by visitors to your site.

Personal data such as customer information, credit card accounts as well as other proprietary details found in most corporate web sites, are the number one target of hackers.
The following are basic procedures to make a website such as yours completely hacker-free and totally secure.

SSLs and firewalls should be protected

Add to the vulnerability woe of most web sites is that the applications found on them are – more often than not – custom fit. It is highly likely therefore that the testing done on such site applications is less compared to software that is gotten just off the shelf. Usually, such custom fit web sites have vulnerabilities that are not tested appropriately. The need to constantly and regularly audit a web site is now considered important, though doing so manually is quite impossible.

It is an unfortunate fact that any defenses or protection that a network has against such hacking methods seem futile considering that most attacks done on web site applications are usually launched and found on a port that has to always be open – specifically port 80.

The injection that does not heal - sql

Sql-injection is a technique in which original commands of sql are modified so that hackers could gain easy access to any or all data found in the site database.

Scripting across sites automatically allows a prolific hacker to create a script on one of your client’s browser.

The application to know if your site is vulnerable to hackers

Acunetix is able to make sure that a website is safe and secure from any hack attacks. Plus, it is able to check the strength of passwords on http pages or forms using html. It also audits, on its own, shopping-carts or forms.

Fortunately, the Acunetix scanner is able to check if the applications on your web site is susceptible to such attacks. This feature automatically takes a load off from your worries as it helps you know instantly whether there are unscrupulous entities out there that are making their way in you site property.

Secure the customers trust

The need to make use of certificates which promote privacy is important. The use of SSL-encryption enables any information that is sent out to be encrypted in order that none of the data is read or intercepted during transit. The key that allows such data to be locked is called a certificate. The same certificate is also used to unlock such a data.

Being able to provide clients with online transactions that are secure is the best way to keep customers pleased and continuously returning to your website.

Believe it or not, such certificates could be bought from companies that offers encryption services. Once such an encryption is installed, web pages are automatically secure.

In summary, it takes a ton of prevention in order to save a website from hackers which could render your site useless.

Our next article talks about 3 Bad Habits that are Damaging for Website Security

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User comments:

graham - Posted on: 2011-07-12 10:31:27

This is some very technical information, I realize now how hacking really goes, understanding more about security will help me protect my website even better. In fact I am thinking about cyber security graduate programs, having a degree like that will certainly help maintain my business.

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