• Paul Blake
• News
• 15 August, 2018

As the growing and continuously changing environment the entrepreneurs, business are going through hard competition. There are bundles of social media profiles, startups, and business that are running a search engine without any physical existence. Businesses are important and so of their data. Due to ever-increasing competition, people are less aware of the hazards that online security breakage can cause to them. In order to remain safe for both clients and the entrepreneurs are working towards the establishment of such a place that can give them a secured WordPress environment to deal with. A few years back there was news roaming at search engine about the ever increasing security threats that much online banking, WordPress E-commerce websites had to face threat.

Why Is Website Security Important?

After, few years this increasing stress resulted into more secure networks and almost had plenty of checks to reach to any particular intruding site. Since a website with money involvement got somewhat secured enough with connected devices checks and codes confirmation but WordPress bloggers had to go through several challenges to secure their data and keep their blog growing.

Here we go!

1. Plan your Plan B -> Schedule your Regular Backups

Backup is one of the best securities for WordPress that must be done without any hesitation and doubts. You always need promising backup even if you are working with any WordPress site. The main question that arises here is about how backup should be done that there is no data loss. A complete data backup is required at every 30 days at least. For the advanced and huge setup of WordPress sites, you always need an IT professional as each plug-in requires a different backup schedule.

It is extremely important to be conscious about all interruptions of your website. Especially when you are using a well-shared hosting the open source technologies like nopCommerce, Magento, WordPress there is an extreme risk of hacking. WordPress plug-in helps in that perspective. For choosing which one to use.

2. Improve Security Checks

How to protect your blog? Is a” Q”. Believe it or not but the weak usernames and the passwords are for sure makes your website a platform that offers security invasion itself. If the security constraints are not properly checked that there is 90 percent chance that it can be guessed easily. So making a website alone is not enough but it requires strong credentials that cannot be judged easily.

Tip: The best way to choose the strongest password for the website is to mix the alphanumeric keys, Capital letters and slang words that belong nothing. Like, bravoBK, NimbusX@U etc.

Use different combinations including upper and lowercase makes the outsider difficult to understand and judge the important parts of the websites. Using the tools like LastPass and KeePass allows you to generate the complex and unable to easily judge credentials and simplify the formula for you to remember them for later.

3. Using Captcha or Spam Filtering Techniques

If your website is developed in an open source platform then you will have to likely receive quiet weird or spamming comments from strange places that even don’t have to do anything with your website. In order to reduce this CAPTCHA on the pages ensure human that are populating your website with silly information. Open source management systems have several plug-ins that use a filter and spamming vibes coming from any source. This won’t makes you get rid of the spam complete but will show you the right direction to follow.

4. Enabling Firewalls

If you will search online for the ways of securing or saving your data you will find plenty of specialized tools that can help you stop the security breaches. Enabling Google Webmaster Tools will help you detect the problems on your website. Since the Google crawlers update the search engine and flag the websites and thus adding another additional layer of security.

5. Updating the CMS Plugins

When you choose open source plug-in it always has drawbacks. It is extremely important to understand the conventions that open source website bring along with them. Mostly the open source platforms are hard to manage as they come up with updates and if the bug gets identified it later own put big trouble for your website. Since the code is open source so it is quite possible that the hackers do have the similar code to intrude. If a website’s content management system or the e-commerce management system is not properly updated in one at least in a month than there is a high risk of website hacking.

6. Steps for Authentication

This might look wired but it is seen that website even if have strong passwords that are hard to judge go through the external attacks. Two-way authentication of websites saves them from such attacks to some extent. The two-way authentication means the step one where you enter your password and the other is syncing it with your phone or email to verify your account. This helps in case someone intends to breach through the channel he has to face an additional layer to breach through. Maybe you won’t consider too much authentication steps as it includes different gadgets, information. Check out this video to know why it is important.

7. Enabling SSL or HTTPS Certification

It is extremely important to encrypt complete website and the data in it so it can’t get transmitted through the site by stalling the SSL certification. This is kind of another protective layer that saves for external attacks on the website. Google likes it doing it too.

It is important that your business has digital assets and has seven steps that are outlined properly when you start working on.

8. Limited Access

For instance, there are 3 to 4 people that are working on the single website. It is often seen that the credentials are being shared every one without taking safety measures. This results in leakage of personal information and hence security is always questioned. So making the different panels can save from such security breaches.

9. Server Configuration Files

You should really get to know about your web server configurations files. Apache server that uses the .htaccess files, Microsoft to web.config so on. Most often it is found that the root directory and these files are quietly powerful. These files allow one to execute the server rules including all the directive that directly or indirectly improve the overall security of the website.

Here are the few rules that are recommended by the experts for the particular web server:

• Preventing the Directory Browsing

 This then prevents the malicious users from viewing the content of every directory of the website. It also limits the information to the attackers.

• Preventing the Holding of Images

  While it is not the strictly an improvement to security issues but it does prevent the other websites from displaying the images hosting and preventing the web server from external threats. This bandwidth allowance of the hosting plan will also seem to be eaten up by the display images for someone else’s site.

Conclusion

WordPress has made life far easier giving a liberty to the entrepreneurs and the business holders to forward their concern to the general public. Since it is an open source platform that is often stuffed with access to information and when it gets’ significant place on a search engine it is returned as null by the hackers. People usually misunderstand it being open source and then face a trouble in later stages. If a WordPress site is developed by the professionals, they introduce the plug-ins that prevent the website from external threats.