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Immunise Your Website by Preventing Hacking Hazards

The way in which vaccination improves your immunity against the invasion of bacteria, in a similar method, some definite steps taken by you can protect your website from the invasion of hackers in Ireland. Hackers have the power to destroy your prime marketing tool by locking, stocking and barreling it. The written post will assist you in learning about the techniques in which valuable website can be safeguarded from online bandits, who are also called hackers.

Know your enemy first

In order to attack your enemy, you must have actual knowledge about its aggressive policies. You can visit the tech site of The Hacker News to know about the tactics used by hackers for harassing their victims. You can easily utilize that knowledge for taking preventive measures against them. This act will protect your website from their devious assaults.

Be more rigid about access control 

The admin level of your website is one of the simplest techniques through which hackers can get access to your system. Hence, think of usernames and passwords, which cannot be identified by them. Alter the default database prefix to something more uncommon or unusual. Another step refers to limiting the number of login attempts within a period with password resets.

Network security 

There is a need to take care of network security by putting a check on computer users in your set up who may be accidentally providing an easy access route to your website servers. For preventing it, there is a need to conduct the subsequent steps:

  • Logins automatically expire following short periods of inactivity
  • Passwords are changed more frequently
  • Passwords are difficult to remember and are never noted down in black and white
  • Devices plugged into the network are always scanned for malware before being used
 

Go for a WAF

A WAF (Web Application Firewall) is either a software or hardware based, installed into your system will read every bit of data passing through it. Nonetheless, most modern WAFs are based on cloud and are provided as plug-and-play service. Usually, the cloud service is deployed in front of the server where it works as a gateman for scanning all incoming traffic. Once installed, the WAF will block all hacking activities, while filtering out other sundry undesirable traffic, such as spammers and malicious bots. However, you need to pay a nominal fee to avail the service.

Install other security applications

WAF works like bouncers to prevent hackers from creating havoc to your website. Apart from the efficient WAF, there are quite a few security applications (both free and paid varieties) that may be installed to act as supplementary security applications to thwart hacking activities largely. Some free plug-in such as Acunetix WP Security will provide an additional echelon of protection by concealing the identity of your website’s CMS. In fact, this will make you more flexible in tackling automated hacking tools that persistently scout websites for easy attack.

Hide admin pages, too

The mentioned method assists in preventing hackers from jumping on to your website and involves usage of robots txt file in discouraging search engines from indexing your admin pages. If these are not indexed then it will become harder for the hackers to deal with these. However, the tutorial from SEObook.com can help you in this matter.

Check file uploads

File uploads are important because regardless of how scrupulously the system checks them out, bugs can still get through and allow a hacker unrestricted access to your site’s data. The most appropriate solution is to prevent direct access to uploaded files. You can avail the option of storing these outside the root directory while using a script to access these when necessary. Your web host may also assist you to set this up.

 

Use encrypted SSL

You can use encrypted SSL protocol for transferring user’s personal information between the website and your database. This step has the power of stopping the hacker from reading the information during transit and access without appropriate authority.

Postscript:

There are innumerable ways in which computer hacking can occur. There is a risk of the computer system from being hacked for attaining personal information. Your blog or website can be compromised if a hacker gets to know your password. Your email can be hacked if you click on a susceptible link and you may not be able to retrieve your email and other information you have registered in your account. Therefore, you can adopt the above steps to safeguard your computer and prevent it from hacking.