How to Improve Website Security in India?

The government of India is taking considerable steps after recent cyber attacks. Websites under cyber terrorism can be a great threat if we consider the growth factors of a country. With respect to these, our focus from now on should be to improve the website security and no other task. Now, this may seem a very general question, but still I’ll go with it.

What is next after you have developed a good web presence? Obviously, you will celebrate the good sale numbers, the measurable ROI and etcetera, etcetera. But wait! Have you thought about the unfortunate side of having a website? No? Then you better start doing that and don’t wait until a breach has occurred. The maintenance of website security has become one of the trending and sparking issues with respect to the recent attacks.

WHAT IS THE REASON FOR BREACH IN WEBSITE SECURITY?

Lack of maintenance, security misconfiguration, well I think these things are sufficient to invite any kind of hackers on to your website. A compromise with website security is nothing but a threat to your online business, its success, and even worse a threat to the credibility that you have maintained with your customers.

How to secure the websites? What are the steps that every web master should follow to achieve the same? In the following section we will go through the best of the tips that needs to be followed effectively and efficiently.

TIPS TO IMPROVE WEBSITE SECURITY

• THE BASIC UPDATE
  • By including the word ‘basic’ I’m trying to stress that by not performing the fundamental step you are putting your website’s integrity at risk. If there is outdated software to support the new plug-in that has been added then it is certainly not accepted.
  • You have an old WordPress plug-in or website firewall protecting your website, update as soon as you get access to the new version. It is best to do these before you get security warnings.
• ONE SITE = ONE CONTAINER
  • You are the proud owner of ‘n’ number of websites, so now you got this great idea to host all these websites on a single server, wow, how well is that?
  • Feeling brilliant? Then you should definitely stop it because you are literally compromising the security of your websites, but how?
  • Just consider it as a kind of infection that spreads. A single server with 5 of your websites and even if one website gets infected, the rest all can be easily targeted. So avoid using a single server.
  • In case of hacking and after the cleanup process, perform these actions to revamp the website security
    • – Reset every single password and follow the same with
    • – File Transfer Protocol Users &
    • – Content Management Systems
• CHANGE THE DEFAULT CMS SETTINGS
  • It is a common practice to work along with the default CMS settings, but how secure is that practice?
  • A fact we should know is, most of the attacks performed on websites are automated, and to duck away from that change the default settings while installing the CMS.
• SERVER CONFIGURATION FILES
  • How well do you know about the web server configuration files?
  • Every web server has powerful files that actually allow you to control and execute the server rules. For instance, Microsoft uses web.config, the .htaccess file by Apache web server, so with these files one can easily enhance the website security.
  • Other than these, by following certain precautionary rules you can avoid your website from being compromised of its security. As a support to this account, I have listed few that have been recommended to add on web servers.
    • – Prevent Image Hotlinking
    • – Prevent Directory Browsing
    • – Protect Sensitive Files

These are the simple steps, yet effective that keeps your website away from hackers.