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New Year New Techniques to Prevent Your Website from

Hackers

When your website goes live, you are opening the doors to customers as well as hackers. The
internet, though very useful in most instances, can bring in people with malicious intent. These
hackers are often intelligent enough to outsmart any basic techniques which you may be using
to protect your website. This is why it is imperative that you have the proper locks which protect
and safeguard your valuable information and data. Because hackers are invisible and generally
very quick, you won’t have the time to catch them in the act. And if you fail to integrate these
new techniques, these electronic thieves will be able to get away with the details of your
customer’s accounts like credit card information or get away with confidential data which you
don’t want to reveal.

Moreover, remember that theft may not always be the reason behind the actions of a hacker.
Some of them simply want to create destruction and chaos and in such a situation, they won’t
just destroy company and business records but can also hamper your reputation with your
clients by sending them malicious emails and messages. This is why it is necessary that you
take some steps to prevent the damage that a hacker can cause. Remember that though even
basic protection will discourage amateur hackers, it is a good idea to keep yourself prepared
with the big guns if someone is really out to get you.

So, don’t let all your hard work go to waste and integrate these fool-proof techniques to protect
your website and business from potential hackers. Though there are many other methods you
can try out, these are some of the tried and tested ones which provide a higher level of
protection than your basic security.

Be Careful About Admin Access
One of the easiest ways for a hacker to get into your website is through the admin level. This
gives the hackers easy access to your files which they can manipulate. To toughen up and
protect this control, make sure you have a strong password which can’t be guessed. Also, limit
the number of times you or anyone else with access can login within a specific time. You should
also look into hiding your admin pages because if they aren’t indexed by search engines, they’ll
be much harder to find and manipulate. Finally, if you are sharing the admin access, make sure
you don’t send details through email because hackers can easily gain access to these accounts.

Update Software Regularly
Though we are all very aware of the risks of keeping our website unprotected, most companies
fail to realize the importance of keeping their software updated. Most companies do it only when
necessary and this ends up costing them a lot more than if they would’ve taken the right step
and updated. Those these updates do cost money, they save you from hassle. Delaying
updates, especially when there is a security vulnerability will expose you to an attack which
could have been prevented. Remember, hackers spend days and browse thousands of
websites looking for weaknesses that’ll allow them to attack and damage your website.
Updating software regularly will give you an extra shield and may even end up being the reason
why your website wasn’t hacked.
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