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Different Ways to Safeguard Your Website Security from Hackers

Different Ways to Safeguard Your Website Security from Hackers

Tue, 04 May 2021

Now a day’s security of websites has become the most important phenomenon. Recently lots of websites have been hacked or ransomware. Ransomware is a software through which hackers can easily block websites, can get the device information, can encrypt the website also, after which there is no guarantee that your data will be retrieved. Therefore companies should be alert and vigilant about the security of their websites or else the website data will be hacked by hackers. There are some precautions that companies have to take to secure their websites from hackers. Keep all your system updated with security software – Your operating system and the software should be updated. Your anti-viruses software should always be in place. The hosting company is responsible for managing the website security. Briefly understands all kind of threats – Your company should be well educated about the various types of hackings and also know the steps to avoid hacking of your website. As hackers have their network, once a hacker gets access to your website other hackers will also soon follow that. Therefore you need to be careful by avoiding the use of a website that is not safe for access. Understand all uploading options – There is numerous website that allows you to upload content from the web. Therefore it is difficult to find out which of these websites have scripts that are harmful to your websites. Therefore you should have to take care while uploading any file on a website. Therefore while uploading images file extensions could be copied so you just not depend on the file extension. Create a backup – Despite taking all precautions against hacking of the website, still, there is a risk of the website being get hacked. To avoid all these situations always backup your files. This way you need not worry if in case your website is hacked. Create a unique and strong password – All the server and website admin passwords should be strong so that it would not be easy to guess. Even you should promote the use of complex passwords to your users for their account security. You should change your password frequently so that it will not get hacked easily by hackers. Secure using the HTTPs links – HTTPs is the one way to secure your website from being hacked. It ensures that the user request is going to the correct servers without any disruption. If you’re filling any type of form or sharing your credit card details for payment then you should use the HTTPs site. Any private information must be share using HTTPs sites only. Handle the error messages – If error messages are not handled carefully this could result in the leak of your website security. The only way to handle these is to provide the minimum information to the user about the error. More information could inject SQL into your page. We at SOFTIEONS TECHNOLOGY work on website development and provide all ways to our customers so that they can secure their websites from being hacked.