Is Your CMS Secure?
Sunday, October 26th, 2008Many small business owners try to build their website using a CSM like Joomla or Drupal. That’s fine. A CMS can be easy to manage, but they are also more susceptible to hacks and security leaks. I recommend either developing your website using HTML and CSS or ensuring that your website meets the latest security standards and prevent your website from being hacked.
If your site is hacked and sits on the same server as a site with malicious malware then it can be used as a doorway to download malware onto unsuspecting people’s hard drives. If that happens then you could get a bad reputation, from which it will be very difficult to recover. You’ll see less traffic to your website and potentially more problems in the future.
To prevent such hacks on your CMS, learn how to secure your site using the proper certificates and security protocols. You’ll also want to request a periodic review of your website from Google Webmaster Tools. Be sure to query your website in Google from time to time as Google notifies searchers of sites that might potentially be harmful and if your site has been hacked then it will be flagged. You need to find out as early as possible so you can fix it.
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