Security for websites: Secure your site

What is security for your website?

This is any action taken to make sure that website data is not exposed to cybercriminals or prevent exploitation of websites in any way.

Why secure a website online?

The three main reasons for securing a website are:

  1. Protect the data that passes between your site and your visitor
  2. Building confidence visitor to the website Internet
  3. Improve (slightly) the natural referencing of this site.

What does website security protect you from?


DDoS attacks:

Attacks like these can slow down or crash your website, making it inaccessible to visitors.


Malware:

this threat is common as it is used to steal customer data and allowing cybercriminals to access your site.


Blacklisting:

Your website can be removed from search engines and which will turn visitors away if search engines find malware.


Defacement:

Attacks like this will replace the content of your website and will show cybercriminals malicious content.

How are your visitors protected?


Stolen data:

This includes data such as emails to payment information and cybercriminals often attack your visitors.


Session hijacking:

Cyber attacks can sometimes take a user’s session and force them to take unwanted actions on a site.’


SEO spam:

Sometimes unusual comments, links, and pages will appear on a site which confuses your visitors and drives traffic to malicious websites.


Why do you need security?

in today’s world many businesses who create website want their customers and visitors of the site to feel safe when browsing and purchasing products and services, so having security with grant your website all of this and make you customers and visitors feel safe.