How to keep your website secure?

With so many small business owners also filling the role of webmaster, I can't anything more terrifying to you than seeing your website being hacked.
These days we are seeing data breaches and hacks in high numbers. The latest report shows that small businesses are the most common victims of data breaches with 43% of entrepreneurs reporting cyber attacks.

With an increase in demand for answers on internet safety and cyber security, Hostulus has compiled some tips on how to keep your website secure.

• Today there are so many websites hacked due to outdated software. Hackers are targeting outdated websites, also bots are checking for outdated websites.
• Don't ignore the notifications that ask you for updating your website, they are very important.
• Updates are made to make your website more secure. Those updates contain security and vulnerability repairs from the before version.
• Always check your website for updates, or you can use any plugins which send you notifications for updates. Here in Hostulus, we allow automatic updates, which is another great option to help you to make your website more secure.

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is another vital site protocol, that works by encrypting incoming and outgoing data on your website. Web Servers work by exchanging information between itself and those who visit your website. SSL secures your web server by scrambling the data to keep it safe from others who may be trying to spy on your data while its transferring between your server and your customers browser. It denies those without legitimate access to your servers encryption algorithm the capacity to get to the information.

Hostulus offers strong 256 bit encrypted SSL/TLS certifiates here.

With there being countless sites, databases, and websites that require passwords, it can be hard to get track of it all. Many individuals wind up using similar passwords across multiple platforms.

This is a very serious security risk, Below you can discover a few steps on how to secure your website a strong password.

• Make it long. This is the most basic step. Don't use anything less than 15 characters, more if conceivable. Use a mix of characters. The more you use letters (capitalized and lower-case), numbers, and characters, the more strong your password key is, and the harder it is for a beast power assault to break it. Make one of a kind secret word for each new sign in demand. Think of convoluted, arbitrary, and hard-to-figure passwords.
• For instance, you may use a 15-digit combination of letters and numbers as a password key. You could then store the password(s) in a disconnected device, a cell phone, or an alternate PC.
  
• Your Cpanel will require a unique login, and you should use a complex password. You shouldn't involve any private data in your password. Avoid using your birthday or pet's name; make it totally unguessable.
  
• Every 3 months or so you should change your password to another unique password. Brilliant passwords are long and ought to be no less than fifteen characters, without fail. Your password should be a mix of numbers and special characters. Make a point to switch back and forth among capitalized and lowercase letters.
  
• Never use a similar password on other platforms and be sure to never share your password with anyone. Hostulus will Never ask you for your password for any reason. In the event of needed to help make changes on your account, we will either ask you if its ok to reset your password for you, or we simply ask you if we have permission to access your account via our admin portal, after confirming your identity.
  

The most well-known assaults against sites are entirely automated. Hackers deploy bots look at random sites to see what type of technology for the backend of the site. Many popular content management systems (CMS) and website builders have vulnerabilities when they have been deployed using their default settings, or havent been updated.

After getting your site set up with any CMS, CRM, or web site builder its important change your default settings right away. We also recommend using special software/plugins to possible hide/mask what type of installation you are using.  Changes help prevent a large number of attacks from bots/hackers.

Trying to prevent cyber attacks is only was level of keeping your site secured. You should also have a plan on what to do in the event of a security breach. For most web masters, doing frequent backups is the best solution. You should be very careful as to follow other security measures to prevent cyber attcks, and to save more than one backup and to do daily backups if possible with offsite storage.

• Backups are very good solutions that can help you to recover damaged or lost files.
• Don't store your backups on the same server as the website, if your website is hacked you may lose the backups also.
• Save backups every day on your home computer or on an external hard drive. The best way is to save the backup in another hard drive and to protect it from hardware failures, hackers, viruses.
• One day maybe you can forget to backup your website, but use our automated backup process.

Every individual who visits your site will have their own login credentials. You can decide to put permissions on these logins. It's very crucial to know about the risks of sharing your login data with others.

A careless employee or a freelancer could do very serious damage if you're giving full access across your website. 

You can limit their permissions to the specific area of the website, and you shouldn't give them access to add/edit/remove admins.