Is your website vulnerable to be attack by cybercriminals? Can you assure that your website visitors’ data is safe from being steal when they visiting your website? How secure it is your website to prevent these attacks from cybercriminals?
It is getting important for website owner to protect their visitor data information nowadays from dangerous cyber threats. There is no signal that when or how these cybercriminals will be attacking a website, they use programs to find and identify which website is containing vulnerabilities, and use these vulnerabilities as points of entry to start hacking the website.
There would be a few consequences if a website wasn’t protecting properly. Depends on the hacker’s intention, other than the potential of data being stolen by them, by putting in malware in the website could easily crash or slow your website or remove your website from the organic search result.
That’s why, WebNIC advice these Four tips to website owners to measure their website security level. If you found your website wasn’t protecting properly.
SSL Certificate
You will first need an SSL certificate that will protect the data collected by your website as it gets transferred from your website to a server. This may be a very basic website security measure, but it is extremely important because popular search engines and browsers are currently labelling websites without SSL as “insecure”. This indeed will make visitors suspect your website.
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
A WAF is another key component for web security as it can stop automated attacks that usually target lesser-known websites. These attacks are executed by bad bots capable of automatically looking for vulnerabilities they can exploit or causing DDoS attacks that crash or slow your website.
Software Updates
Security issues and vulnerabilities mostly detected in third-party plugins and applications make websites hosted on a content management system (CMS) to be at a greater risk of compromise. Such scenarios can be prevented by installing updates to plugins and core software on a timely basis, as these updates frequently comprise security patches.
Website Scanner
If you are very late in discovering a cyberattack performed on your website, then the cost to recover from this attack will only increase. To prevent such a situation, you will need a good website scanner capable of detecting vulnerabilities, malware, and several other security issues. A website scanner will not only remove known malware but will also look for threats on a regular basis and instantly alert you if anything gets detected, thus reducing the amount of damage it can do to your website.