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Business Website Security Tips (Page 1 of 2)
Business Website Security Tips
Whether it’s a surfer who just unintentionally entered a prohibited part of a website or those who hack into a system deliberately, your goal is to prevent it before it happens. Once a hacker gains access to a they can cause a devastating amount of damage to a business website. There is however, an awful lot that you can do to foil any would be hacker by taking steps to prevent them gaining access.
Good Web Designer With Their Own Secure Hosting
The best preventative action that you could take is to have a great web designer/builder/developer who places your website straight on secure reliable hosting from the start. One who will have tightened up your site security as they built the site. Unfortunately, many web designers don’t supply their own secure web hosting for clients and don’t feel that it’s their job to ensure that your website is secured. A good design company will be mindful of site security as they build as they won’t want either your site or their hosting compromised.
Use Digital Certificates (SSL’s)
If you’ve an ecommerce business website, you should use digital certificates. This helps to protect sensitive data when passed using a form. This could include anything from customer credit card information, to address and contact details. It’s important for business website owners to be able to assure their clients that their website is secure. A digital certificate goes a long way towards countenancing clients to trust a business is legitimate and entrust sensitive information while making a purchase on your website.
Stay Up To Date
Keep all website scripts up to date and make sure your web host is keeping their software up to date e.g. with versions of PHP and MySql on the web hosting. If you don’t you’re bound to have your site hacked! Good script and software makers release updates and patches as soon as a new exploit is identified – apply them as soon as you are notified about them.
Keep Regularly Updated
Some of the most important security procedures include methods to make sure a Web site’s forbidden pages are inaccessible to anyone who lacks authority to view them. Never leave script config files as writable and avoid using scripts that must have 777 to function.
As criminals constantly devise new ways to elude modern security, security procedures are constantly being updated to ensure that the latest version includes protection against these new security threats and risks. It’s the business website owner’s duty to make certain that their security is up-to-date. This makes the correction of such problems, if they arise, simpler.
A business website owner should also regularly change all administrator passwords and not make passwords too easy to guess. It’s often astounded me when asked to work on a website to then be told the password I need is ‘test’ ‘or sitename’! Never use dictionary words as your passwords and never use names. Instead use a mix of upper and lower case letters plus numerals.
Techniques to Clear away Spyware That does not Want To Depart Your Computer
There are times that you get some spyware on your system that just won’t let up. It seems as if nothing that you do is actually getting it off your system making it hard to use your computer safely as you are worried about what it’s looking at on your system. There are some techniques that you can use that will help you get rid of spyware that is difficult to take off the system.
The first is that you need to use a spyware scanner that will do a system scan while the computer boots up in safe mode. In safe mode, at times the spyware can’t turn on or be activated which sometimes makes it hard to get off the system. If you can do the scan in safe mode, at times it’s easy to remove the problem.
Other times you can simply end the process that the spyware is running under in the task manager. If you end the process, you can then remove it. Sometimes spyware is designed so that it can only be removed if it’s disabled. This is one trick that lets you do that easily.
Clean your registry. Sometimes spyware will embed itself deep into your computer’s registry causing problems. If clean up the registry with a cleaner tool, it can get rid of this problem for you better.
Do a search on the internet for the specific piece of spyware that is giving you trouble. Generally there is someone in a blog or forum who has a creative step by step solution to fixing the problem.
One option is to back up all your files on your machine and consider going back to a previous save point on your machine. There is a chance that the previous restore point doesn’t have the spyware meaning you can avoid having it at all anymore by going back.
Sometimes spyware is hard to remove from your system. Learn a few strategies to removing the tough spyware that won’t go away.
Techniques to Clear away Spyware That does not Want To Depart Your Computer
There are times that you get some spyware on your system that just won’t let up. It seems as if nothing that you do is actually getting it off your system making it hard to use your computer safely as you are worried about what it’s looking at on your system. There are some techniques that you can use that will help you get rid of spyware that is difficult to take off the system.
The first is that you need to use a spyware scanner that will do a system scan while the computer boots up in safe mode. In safe mode, at times the spyware can’t turn on or be activated which sometimes makes it hard to get off the system. If you can do the scan in safe mode, at times it’s easy to remove the problem.
Other times you can simply end the process that the spyware is running under in the task manager. If you end the process, you can then remove it. Sometimes spyware is designed so that it can only be removed if it’s disabled. This is one trick that lets you do that easily.
Clean your registry. Sometimes spyware will embed itself deep into your computer’s registry causing problems. If clean up the registry with a cleaner tool, it can get rid of this problem for you better.
Do a search on the internet for the specific piece of spyware that is giving you trouble. Generally there is someone in a blog or forum who has a creative step by step solution to fixing the problem.
One option is to back up all your files on your machine and consider going back to a previous save point on your machine. There is a chance that the previous restore point doesn’t have the spyware meaning you can avoid having it at all anymore by going back.
Sometimes spyware is hard to remove from your system. Learn a few strategies to removing the tough spyware that won’t go away.