Website Owner? 7 Ways to Keep it Secured

No long talks. Just Straight to the points:

1. Use Unique, Complex Passwords With over 5,000 data breaches in 2019 alone, the importance of using unique, complex passwords cannot be overstated. The Surveillance Self-Defense guide at eff.org recommends writing them down on paper! Top Tips:

• Use a password generator to create highly complex, secure passwords.
• Use a password manager that encrypts passwords for sites, stores them securely, and has a history of security success.
  • LastPass: www.lastpass.com
  • NordPass: nordpass.com/free-password-manager
  • Bitwarden: bitwarden.com

1. Choose Web Hosting Carefully

The decision as to where to host your website can play as big a role in keeping secure as any other single thing you can do. Compromises happen due to outdated software, updates not applied, systems not secured using best practices and simple lax standards about internal employee and external accesses.

Choosing a web hosting company with more than a year of proven secure-hosting experience makes sense. A great history of success, coupled with managed hosting that’s high-performance, high-specification and value priced – all combine to make Usijali web hosting a decision that makes more sense.

Quality web hosting will not only keep everything from kernel and operating system software updated to applications and control panels. Updates are critical. More than just updating systems, expert hosts will include hardening and optimization services as standard (behind the scenes) to assure customers of a secure, high-performance solution.

3. Get DDoS Protection

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a common method hackers use to compromise websites. Even with hardened server hardware and software, an exposed network can be an attack vector.

Choose web hosts, like Usijali Hosting that includes complementary DDoS protection for all hosting accounts. Ensure that your account has maximum protection from network to server.

4. Use SSL

• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encrypts communication between the server and web visitors, as well as admin connections with the server so that mail, control panel, and other functions can be encrypted as well.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is what makes http: URLs function as https:

Some hosts, like Usijali Hosting, provide free SSL certificates for web hosting customers because of the important protection SSL affords.

5. Keep Desktop Apps Updated

Sometimes, it’s not the server-side systems but the desktop applications that provide hackers an entry point.

There are times that a website owner has an application compromised, dangerous email or website link clicked and thus provides a hacking opportunity with their very own hands.

Use a proven anti-virus, in addition to keeping the operating system and desktop applications up to date, as ways to prevent malicious compromises.

6. Update Server Systems

• The server operating system and underlying technologies like PHP, MySQL, or MariaDB, programming languages, and interpreters all play a role in preventing hacking opportunities.

Managed Hosting:

If you use a managed hosting provider, confirm from them that they keep systems updated on your behalf.

7. Update Core Applications

• Websites typically run applications like blogs, e-commerce packages, wikis, or forums. Generally, it’s the web hosting customer’s responsibility to keep these updated. Specialty Hosting:
• An exception to this rule is specialty hosting, like WordPress hosting, which most time includes automatic updates for core installations.

Conclusion:

These are a number of simple, easy to implement, steps that you can put in place to secure your website hosting environment.

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