Be it a blog started on a whim, or your business’ e-commerce website, if you haven’t secured your website, you’re taking a huge risk
Businesses are increasingly moving online and we are already at a point in time where established physical stores and offices are shutting down to give way to online businesses. And on the other hand, due to the ease of setting up a website with one-click solutions, small businesses and individuals are using the power of the internet to maximise this reach. But this ease comes at the cost of website security, which is often overlooked or left to the vendor. We are not saying that the vendors cannot provide security, but there is a catch. Take popular website CMS platform Wordpress. Every hacker worth his money knows the default settings, usernames, login URLs, directory structures and more about Wordpress. So leaving security entirely to the CMS or website vendor is not exactly brilliant. There are quite a few things you need to take care of to ensure that months of hard work from your side to set up the website does not go in vain.
The hiding part
From the early days of war and espionage until today, the importance of hiding your presence and details has always been a crucial tactic. Just think about it - how does one take something down when they don’t know what it is in the first place? The same effectiveness is completely applicable when it comes to the details of the content management system at the backend of your website.
As mentioned earlier, the default details about most popular CMS options are very well known to hackers, and without additional protection, they are quite easy to hack into using standard well known methods. By just retaining the default folder structure, you would be handing over the access to your login URL on a plate. Nowadays most popular CMS providers allow renaming the default folder structure, including the administrator folders. And the best thing to do with that freedom is to go crazy and name them something that only you (and the other people with the authority) can guess.
This story is from the October 2016 edition of Digit FastTrack.
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