“Prevention is better than cure”. Probably, most of us have come across this saying since school days, and this precious idiom still remains equally relevant even to this age of information technology and smartphones, especially when, the online security of each and every one of us is at stake. In this article, we have tried to discuss some of the most important points that might help you protect your online identity – your website, and what are the steps you need to take to securing it.
To ensure your website’s security, you first need to have your site’s Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificate in order to protect your site’s data when it gets transferred to a remote server located elsewhere. Even though this is a basic security feature, but is crucial since the top search engines are presently labelling websites without this feature as ‘not secure’. Hence, naturally, visitors will choose to avoid your website.
This firewall technology is another weapon that can stand as a hindrance to attacks, usually performed by automated web bots, targeting the relatively lesser-known sites. These bots are empowered with the ability to look for vulnerabilities in these sites through which they can intrude in, or can even trigger DDoS attacks that can crash a site, or compromise with its speed.
Third-party plugins and applications that are often implemented in many popular CMSs (content management systems) like WordPress can often make your site vulnerable to cyber-attacks, eventually resulting in compromisation with security issues.In such cases, you might want to consider installing plugin and core software updates from time to time, since these updates usually come with security patches and can act as a guard to your CMS platform.
In order to shield your website from sudden cyber-attacks, it is always safe to stay well-equipped beforehand. Nobody wants his/her website to be a victim of the cyber-criminals, but, as we all know – preventive measure is always a powerful weapon of defence. For this, it is advisable that you consider installing a strong website scanner that has the ability to detect and safeguard you from all vulnerabilities, malware, and many such security issues. A cyber-security software not merely removes or quarantines malwares, but also acts as an all-time guard against such vicious programs, informing you instantly about any kind of suspicious activities, the moment it is detected. This reduces the chances of your website to get seriously damaged, if at all.
Considering all the above points, if you feel confused (especially if you are an amateur in the programming and the software concepts), you probably need to consult a talented software professional who has the practical know-how of these concepts, as also has some field experience, working against cyber hackers, and how the latter are constantly changing their techniques of hacking, and can adjust counter-strategies, accordingly, devising ways to handle such situations.