Website Hardening: How to make your website more secure for your visitors
If you want to make your website security more robust, you need to think about hardening. Hardening your website means adding additional layers of security to reduce the potential attack surfaces. Manual hardening usually involves manually adding code or making changes in the configuration. Hardening your website involves allowing a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or…
HTTP: What is it and how does it work?
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is the foundation of the Internet and is used to load websites using hyperlinks. HTTP is an application layer protocol designed to transfer information between connected devices and runs on top of other layers of the networking protocol stack. A typical flow over an HTTP connection involves a client machine sending…
How Advanced DDoS Mitigation can help keep your website online
A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is an attempt by a malicious attacker to overwhelm a website or device with so much traffic that it becomes unavailable for legitimate users. The primary purpose of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is to make a machine, network resource, or service unavailable to its genuine…
How to protect your website from online threats
Reduce your risk with a few simple steps Personal data is valuable to cybercriminals. Did you know that hackers can sell Netflix passwords for $3 each? Financial data is even MORE valuable than credit card numbers, and hackers can get up to $2,000 for selling financial data. Data theft has become more common and more…
Defeating malware: tips for preventing and removing malware from your WordPress website
WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems currently available. It is also a favorite vehicle for hackers to infiltrate websites and spread malware. However, with a few simple precautions, you can prevent your WordPress website from being hacked. What is malware? Malware is any software that is intentionally designed to cause disruption…
9 Ways to Increase WordPress Security and Avoid Cyber Attacks for High-Performance Websites
WordPress is the most well-known content management system (CMS) in the world. It powers more than 30% of all websites on the internet, including some of the largest ones. Lately, security has been a growing concern for WordPress users, with many successful cyber attacks happening. Keeping your WordPress website secure is not an easy task….
What is Cyber Threat Intelligence? [Beginner’s Guide]
What is Threat intelligence? Threat intelligence is data that is collected, processed, and analyzed to understand a threat actor’s motives, targets, and attack behaviors. Threat intelligence enables us to make faster, more informed, data-backed security decisions and change their behavior from reactive to proactive in the fight against threat actors. Why is Threat intelligence Important?…
How to Maintain and Secure Your Website
Online security is an essential issue in today’s society, especially for businesses. We live in an age where online security can make the difference between success or failure. Today, it is imperative that you do everything to protect your website from malicious attacks. If you follow some simple best practices described below, you will make…
Why do all sites now require SSL (HTTPS)
SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer and is a type of website security that establishes a reliable encrypted connection between a user’s browser and the web server that hosts the website. What is HTTPS? Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) was the most widely used cryptographic protocol for securing internet communications before it was replaced by Transport…
8 Simple Ways to Improve your Website Security
Sometimes the best methods to solve any problem are the simplest. You know you need to protect your website from bad actors, but when you explore the vulnerabilities of your website, you will be faced with complex concepts and complex solutions. To improve the security of your website, you need to follow basic practices. There…