Internet safety is the most important thing in the digital age. With everything happening in the world online and digitally hacking is a serious issue. When your entire livelihood is online, you need to take every precaution you can to prevent business-crashing hacks. Internet safety extends past just making sure your passwords are secure, you also need to ensure that you take all the steps to secure your website, like SSL and monitoring your website for any suspicious activity.
The first thing about security today is passwords. Well we all know that we shouldn’t use the same password on different platforms however many of us do or we do something even worse where we leave the default password.
There are many stories of scary instances where people have had their business websites hacked, where they’ve had their webcams hacked, and there are even stories of people’s baby monitors being hacked. This can all be prevented with proper security measures. The first task that they can do is to make sure that they don’t leave the default password on the device and that they make sure that their password is both strong and unique. There are multiple different things that you can do when creating unique passwords. You can do variations of one password and then keep track of what the variations are or you can have a software that saves all of your passwords to it. Google Chrome has a new password suggestion software when signing up for websites they gave you a super-secure password that looks like gibberish with numbers, characters, and letters.
When it comes to website security, you can install a secure socket layer on your website. This is the SSL certificate. The next thing that you can do is to ensure that all of your forms are secure in the way that you prevent Bots or scams from coming through. You can do this by using plugins that add honey pots which are security features that only bots end up using that indicate that the form should not be submitted. You can also make sure that you take the proper precautions to prevent your contact information from being spammed. For example, don’t put your email address on the website. Instead hide it behind a contact form.
The next thing you want to do is make sure to monitor your website for any suspicious activity. If you are tech-savvy, you can look into the files and make sure that there are no new files that you don’t recognize and that there are no updates to files that you did not make. The first things you need to do if you do see something that you don’t recognize on your server or website, are to isolate it, research it, and then remove it completely. There are many softwares and companies that can help you to fix a hacking attempt or to prevent people from hacking your website.
With such valuable data being on your website you need to ensure that you do not lose it. You need to make sure you have secure unique strong passwords, security and SSL on your website, and efficient monitoring software. We offer a maintenance package where we do this for you! Our maintenance package includes website hosting, security, backups for both the website and the databases associated with your website, content updates, and platform updates.
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