Shield Your Website Against Vulnerabilities

Any business’s website contains the most crucial information that can be accessed only by the admin. However, the hackers do exist and if they break into your admin panel then they may play havoc with your site. So it is very important to take complete care of your website security. Many times we note that it is the negligence of some very general issues that make your site vulnerable. Some site owners fail to recognize the importance of crucial security tightening procedures and face security issues in the future.

 

Fortify your Website With These Steps:

• Ideal web server configuration
• Web Application Security
• Issues with public connectivity
• SSL Certificates
• URL Parameters
• Machine Man Combo
• Files and Folders
• Queries with Parameters

 

Ideal web server configuration

One of the most important but oft-neglected factors for evaluating your safety status is web server configuration. Just with a secured configuration, you web server can be shielded from numerous common yet lethal attacks like XSS (Cross Site Scripting). Additionally, it also safeguards the privacy of your visitors that can be a crucial requirement especially if you run an e-commerce site where visitors trust you with their key financial information like credit cards. You should seriously think of running a through web server security assessment by an experienced industry authority. The test involves 360-degree analysis of web configuration, cookies probation, HTTP headers and other core technicalities that affect security.

 

Web Application Security

One of the key parts of the security check is website or web application security. Interestingly, it is the most complicated part too. A large number of data breaches are made possible by SQL injections and XSS. Vulnerability detection is a very challenging task and apart from technical resources it greatly relies on manpower efficiency that makes the task even tougher.

 

Issues with public connectivity

Connectivity has become a common commodity nowadays and a many visitors can use unsecured public wireless networks to access to your site. That makes it quintessential to test the efficiency of your SSL/TLS encryption. How would you test that? You need to ensure that your HTTPs encryption perfectly adheres to the best industry practices. You can run a test to ensure that your HTTPS aligns well with the NIST standards, PCDSS requirements, and other industry standards. It is also recommendable to check your email server SSL that will offer a complete peace of mind.

 

SSL Certificate

SSL certificates cost a very small amount that amounts to negligible if you have built a comprehensive e-commerce site at a hefty price. It offers the higher encryption level that further enhances the security of your client who trusts you with his credit/debit card numbers and crucial details. The complex encryption ensures that no malicious element is able to sneak into the critical information of your online buyers.

 

URL Parameters

Many websites allow the audience to submit their information. If your website is among them then you should ensure that your URL parameter or web form should not have parameters that are very open. The hackers could insert their own code into them and steal the crucial client information by breaking into your database. The situations become accurately painful when they get access to the financial information like credit card numbers and misuse them.

 

Machine Man Combo

MIT recently concluded in its study that mere machine or technical infrastructure is not able to effectively discover the vulnerability or securing the cyber environment. It needs the combined efforts machine and man for evaluating and maintaining the cyber security effectively. Apart from technically scanning vulnerabilities, a deep and diverse real-time analysis by competent manpower is equally essential. It will offer the dual benefit of accurate scanning as well as diverse smartness of human brain that can intuitively identify something fishy or susceptible.

 

Files and Folders

Files and folders are the key elements of any website and many of them are specifically designed to store the crucial data or scripts. Some of them are used to control the key permissions that allow or restrict the reading, writing or execution of any file or folder.

 

Queries with Parameters

In order discourage the SQL Injection hacks you need to use queries with parameters. It ensures that your code is perfectly equipped with adequate parameters to create an impenetrable wall against the entry of hacker.