Website Security
Is your site monitored daily for attempts at hacking?
If not it should be especially if you are holding customer details like names and emails and you are using a Payment Gateway.
Many sites use open source systems and default passwords. These systems are constantly targeted by hacking attempts.
If your site is popular and starts to grow - pay particular attention to securing your valuable clients information.
How can your site be compromised?
- Any one at the hosting company
- Your designer and any outsourced coder
- FTP details found on your computer by a hacker
- Non updated code that has vulnerabilities
- Code injection from forms or subscriber lists
- Direct injection via scripts
- Backdoor entry via ports
- On shared web hosting another site gets compromised
Storing credit card details
Don't it is probably illegal under credit card agreements and you may be liable for losses caused by you doing so.
The best defence mechanisms
- Using the best web hosting
- Site monitored for changes daily by the web developer or yourself
Phil Hoile - GoldCoastLogin.com.au programmer
Griffith University Lecturer in e Commerce and industry courses
- e Business & advanced e Business
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