3 tips to improve your website security
With the advancement of technologies around the world, without a doubt, information security and the security of your website need to be priorities. Usually, to improve security, three important pillars are guaranteed: Protection, Detection, and Response. These elements allow for a security routine for your site, however, you need to follow some best practices for them to function normally. Thinking about it, in this article, you will check 3 tips to improve the security of your website on the Internet!
1 – Have a dedicated and separate server
Currently, most web hosting plans allow you to have more than one hosted website and many subdomains. For this reason, it is common to see several sites on the same account, which consequently, are several sites on the same hosting server that can be invaded.
If a website has a vulnerability or any other situation that implies access to the account by an attacker, he will certainly have access to all websites under that account, including direct access to FTP and File Manager, usually via cPanel.
In addition, another unfavorable point that harms having more than one website in the same account is that there are many times more chances of having security problems, with the number of websites in the account. Let’s assume you have 5 websites, each based on a CMS. There is at least one chance of an attacker discovering a vulnerability per website hosted.
Ideally, you should have a dedicated and separate server individually for each site. If you need it, even all our cloud computing plans are dedicated, independent, and with 100% root access to the desired application.
2 – Have a quality SSL certificate
Another important aspect is the SSL certificates, responsible for having the famous “green padlock” at the top of the browser. In addition to being a favorable aspect for the ranking of the site in search engines, they are an important and necessary security measure. In summary, what SSL does for website security is to encrypt all data that is exchanged between a device that performs access and the website.
In case an attacker eventually intercepts the data, he cannot read it, as cryptography consists of the process of transforming, through algorithms, the characters belonging to a sequence. Therefore, a word as simple as “password” can look like something like, for example: “bcLbekjok4o23d8va718991d9b8qa3p2m1hudEcxAg”.
3 – Update systems, plugins, and the CMS
This is one of the most important points, outdated software can bring a series of vulnerabilities to your website and also compromise the end-user experience in practice. And here the concern must be redoubled. When we refer directly to software, we are referring to what you have on your computer and which is generally what you use to access the website’s administrative area, your website’s hosting management, your email account, as well as your CMS that you eventually use to create and manage your website.
Client-side vulnerabilities, such as browsers or email account management software, could allow an attacker to discover your hosting control panel or email account password. Currently, there are several vulnerabilities on the server side, that is, in the application you use to maintain your website, it may be possible for the hacker (in this specific case, a cracker) to perform various actions on your account, such as, for example, installing malicious scripts, delete or change account content, and even gain full control of the hosting account, allowing you to do everything you do as if you.
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