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Network Security Review
Do you know if your home network has been setup correctly? Is your personal data safe? Do your network devices have the necessary security? These are just some of the many security questions you need to ask when you have your own network at home. Wired and wireless network connections are utilizing different types of network security. If you do your banking online, shop online, connect with friends, it is critical for you to review your network to ensure that all possible security holes are fixed. Just think of this, a hacker that exploits the security vulnerability of your network can be on standby right now to steal some valuable information from your computer.
You can say that your network is setup correctly if you have the basic devices to make up a network and have security features at the same time.
1) Modem – Provided by your internet service provider (ISP) that is the source of your internet connection. Depending upon what device model you have, it normally comes with a security for additional protection.
2) Router – Can have both wired and wireless capability, shares that internet connection. Some firewall serves what they call a hardware or software firewall. Stateful firewall (any firewall that performs stateful packet inspection (SPI) or stateful inspection) is a firewall that keeps track of the state of network connections (such as TCPstreams, UDP communication) traveling across it.
3) Wireless Security – The basic wireless security options to choose from is WEP, WPA and MAC address filtering.
Network security gives you two kinds of protection. First, protection against malicious software, like virus, spyware and other protection against hackers or people that can steal sensitive information from your computer. Your network security is only as secure as the unsecured computer in the network. Meaning if you have 3 computers and one does not have the necessary security, the whole network will still be vulnerable from hack attacks. A worm is a malicious code or software that spreads from one computer to another using the network highway.
Operating system link Microsoft Windows 7 offers some more protection like Windows firewall and Windows defender. These are the basic securities that you need to consider when doing your network security review. With this protection securely on all the time, you will have peace of mind doing your banking and purchasing online because you know that you are fully protected. Besides this, you should also be familiar on how to avoid manual virus and spyware removal on your computer.
Network Security Review
Do you know if your home network has been setup correctly? Is your personal data safe? Do your network devices have the necessary security? These are just some of the many security questions you need to ask when you have your own network at home. Wired and wireless network connections are utilizing different types of network security. If you do your banking online, shop online, connect with friends, it is critical for you to review your network to ensure that all possible security holes are fixed. Just think of this, a hacker that exploits the security vulnerability of your network can be on standby right now to steal some valuable information from your computer.
You can say that your network is setup correctly if you have the basic devices to make up a network and have security features at the same time.
1) Modem – Provided by your internet service provider (ISP) that is the source of your internet connection. Depending upon what device model you have, it normally comes with a security for additional protection.
2) Router – Can have both wired and wireless capability, shares that internet connection. Some firewall serves what they call a hardware or software firewall. Stateful firewall (any firewall that performs stateful packet inspection (SPI) or stateful inspection) is a firewall that keeps track of the state of network connections (such as TCPstreams, UDP communication) traveling across it.
3) Wireless Security – The basic wireless security options to choose from is WEP, WPA and MAC address filtering.
Network security gives you two kinds of protection. First, protection against malicious software, like virus, spyware and other protection against hackers or people that can steal sensitive information from your computer. Your network security is only as secure as the unsecured computer in the network. Meaning if you have 3 computers and one does not have the necessary security, the whole network will still be vulnerable from hack attacks. A worm is a malicious code or software that spreads from one computer to another using the network highway.
Operating system link Microsoft Windows 7 offers some more protection like Windows firewall and Windows defender. These are the basic securities that you need to consider when doing your network security review. With this protection securely on all the time, you will have peace of mind doing your banking and purchasing online because you know that you are fully protected. Besides this, you should also be familiar on how to avoid manual virus and spyware removal on your computer.
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.