Website security: Why you need to think about it?   by Nitesh Patel

in Technology / Information Technology    (submitted 2010-11-29)

There are 3 pâ??s in any business: product,pricing and promotion,but in cyber world the business requires 4 pâ??s product,pricing,promotion and protecting from cyber attack like hacking,masquerading, intercepting,replay and traffic analysis.

Once the website is designed and published the next step is promotion, but if the website is designed on the open source -CMS-based such as Joomla and Wordpress then it requires special attention for the security issue.

Many webmasters underestimates the security related issues, this lack of concern for the website security exist until the website get hacked. For the open source â??CMS-based website there are several things which must be considered. When a web application security audit takes place they keep track of the each and everything so the points that must be considered are:

· Employ the add on /plug in only when it is required and also do read the observation of other reviewer who had already used.

· Plug in should be developed sincerely and with proper consideration.

· Apply add on /plug in for purpose of security because it hide the folder from the administrator and protect against the Sql injection attack.

· Use httacess to increase siteâ??s security, hattacess is small file that is in the root folder of the website in which one can add programming code from ip to block level access. There are lot of httacess codes available in internet that can be used for the same.

· Schedule your computer antivirus to scan your computer daily against the spyware and viruses, as they can be backdoor to hack into website.

· Password should be long and alpha-numeric and should be changed frequently.

· PCI scanning(PCI stands for Payment Card Industry) must be performed which ensures that the whatever is coming and going out from your website is secure or not.

· Configure web content uploading through secure communications channel e.g. SSH

· Content uploaded on the web server should be verified to ensure that it is free of any malicious content.

In addition to all these, the secure hosting should be selected for the website hosting because if there occur any problem to your website then many hosting providers threw the responsibility by blaming the open source software.

About the Author

Nitesh Patel is a blogger and also content service provider for various website. His work is related to blog setup and customization if you want more advice or need help with content and blog you can contact me on my website Redefining Technology.