The primary reason why SSL is used is to keep sensitive information sent across the internet encrypted so that only the intended recipient can access it. This is important because the information you send on the internet is passed from computer to computer to get to the destination server. Most importantly, google ranks your site better if it has an SSL.
CAPTCHA or Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, is basically a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You see them quite frequently at the bottom of web forms. The technology is used mostly to block spammers and bots that try to automatically harvest email addresses or try to automatically sign up for or make use of websites, blogs, or forums.
Usually, hackers already have an idea of the specific URL address where your users log in. Changing it would at least let them keep guessing.
Set up good passwords. Use 8-10 characters consisting of upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols. Long passwords are better than short passwords.
You need to have a way to monitor your site to make sure it stays uncorrupted. Daily monitoring is needed. Monitoring that checks every few minutes is much better. Monitoring your sites is just as important as trying to keep them locked down. You need to know when someone does manage to hack in so you can do something to fix it.
It is very important that you update your website to keep it relevant, fast, and safe. Updates usually contain security patches so it should be as frequent as possible.
It is essential to have a good backup system in place for those times when you must kill a site or a hack kills a site, and you need to bring it back up. If a hack is bad enough, you will sometimes be better off killing the whole site and bringing it back up from your backups. That is to make sure you get rid of all the parts of a bad hack.
There are a lot more ways in keeping your website secure, and we can help take the hassle of going through them one by one and just give you the peace of mind of having a secured website.
We repeat: Prevention is better than cure. And with that, we are here to help you with the safety and security of your website!
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