Improving website security

The success of a small online business partly rests on the website. A good website means professionalism and expertise in online business. A hastily created website without much thought will only work against the online business as this could shun instead of attracting customers.

But aside from its look, a website’s security should be highly considered. While a bad looking website will not attract customers, an unsecured website can practically destroy the business. Important data owned by the business and customers could be extracted and used illegally. When this happens, customer’s trust fades which not only prevents more customers but also destroys the present ones.

The best security measure any webmasters could do in their website is to check the source code. Knowing the files running in your website is not enough. Remember that your source code is hosted in a paid server which means it can be attacked through your service provider. Your source code will reveal the transactions that happen in your website. Identifying unauthorized running transactions could be easily removed.

Also, beware of ads that you chose to add in your website. While some are only there as part of their advertising campaign, some inject a small code to extract data from the server.

Last but not the least; be aware of attacks that could be directed to your website through code injections. Attacks will come in a form of code that contains links which runs a remote code used to go around security protocols.

When these attacks happen, place your website in offline mode as soon as possible. Although this might be an inconvenience to your users, securing your user’s data is and should be a priority.