What Is Web Site Security, How To Secure Website?

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Web Site Security: - Web sites are unfortunately prone to security risks. And so are any networks to which web servers are connected. Setting aside risks created by employee use or misuse of network resources, your web server and the site it hosts present your most serious sources of security risk.

What Exactly Does Website Security Mean? :- We hear a lot about Website Security but what exactly does that mean to you? Whether it’s for personal or business use, ensuring your web presence is represented by a safe website can have a deep impact on your online success. In fact, creating and maintaining a secure website shows others that you’re serious about what you do.
Web security involves threats (hackers, website malware, devious ex-friends and so on) looking to exploit vulnerabilities in your website as simple as weak passwords all the way to more technical flaws such as cross-site scripting and SQL injection – the latter of which I’ll cover in subsequent posts.
Websites get hacked because of three things:
• Access Control
• Software Vulnerabilities
• Third-Party Integrations
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... Access Control: - Access control speaks specifically to the process of authentication and authorization the reality is that access control is much more important than most give credit. It is like the person that locks their front door but leaves every window unlatched and the alarm system turned off. This begs the question.

Software Vulnerabilities: - Software vulnerabilities are not for the faint of heart. I would argue that 95% of website owners are unable to address today’s software vulnerabilities; even everyday developers are unable to account for the threats their own code introduces. The problem, as I see it, is in the way we think. It takes a special person to want to break things. Most of us use things as they are designed. exploitation of a software vulnerability is achieved through a cleverly malformed Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or POST Headers.

Third-Party Integrations / Services: - Third-party integrations and services have become commonplace in today’s website ecosystem, and are especially popular in the highly extensible Content Management Systems (CMS) like WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal.