Protecting websites is a growing concern within businesses locally.
Your website is a critical business asset that needs a secure plan. Sensitive customer data is being collected on your website and often vulnerable to exposure, either through malicious means or accidental human error. Third-party technologies can pose a threat to your data, leaving them subject to piggybacking or malicious JavaScript injection, which can leak data to unapproved parties.
Understanding your website’s risk profile and areas of weakness can help to prevent more security serious problems.
A website security plan protects your brand reputation and your customers from being exploited. Small business websites are no exception since hackers will exploit any opportunity to steal traffic, data, and server resources.
Taking steps to monitor and defend your website is much easier than dealing with a hacked website. It’s also wise to have an emergency response plan in place before a data breach or compromise happens.
WordPress, Themes & Plugins
WordPress is one of the most popular platforms used today for website creation. It accounts for over 30% of all sites today. Our security process at Fairview Media involves keeping your website software, themes and plugins updated. Keeping these updated reduces your vulnerability to breaches and hacking. The use of third-party plugins and themes exposes users to additional security threats.
Regularly installing the latest versions of core WordPress files and extensions, ensures that your website contains all of the prevailing security updates and your WordPress site is more secure.
Security Every Website Should Have
- Security Detection.
A good website security scanner alerts you when your site is down or has been blacklisted by search engines. Changes to your DNS or SSL records should be tracked. Unexpected changes to your website content, files or database are a sure sign of breaches. - Website Firewall
Prevent future issues with a website firewall to protect against brute force attacks and attempts to inject content into your web server. Preserve your website integrity by blocking known hacking methods. - Backups
Even when your website is secure and up-to-date, a broken plug-in or mistake can lead to data loss. Website backups protects you if your custom files are overwritten. A website should have an off-site storage location plus have automatic backups scheduled.
43% of breach victims were small businesses. (Verizon). More 2020 Cyber-security stats from Varonis here: 110 Must-Know Cybersecurity Statistics for 2020
Contact Fairview Media for improving your website security.
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