Introduction
Website security is one of the key factors for having a safe and peaceful environment for users. Making your website secure is important for the legacy and goodwill of your website. The purpose of website security is to protect your website from cyber-attacks. Making it formal, the website security prevents any unauthorized access, use, modification, destruction, or disruption to your website data.
Let us dig deeper into the concept of website security,
TABLE OF CONTENT:
Introduction:
What is Website Security?
What are the website security threats?
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- SQL Injection
- Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
- Denial of Service (Dos)
- Clickjacking
- Directory Traversal
- File Inclusion
- Command Injection
Would you visit a website with vulnerabilities that shows a warning that the connection is not private?
Is there really a security risk?
Does my business have a risk online?
- Using HTTPS and Removing Security Vulnerabilities through SSL
- TLS (Transport Layer Security)
- Front-End JavaScript Library
Why bot management is important?
How to fix the vulnerabilities that are a threat to your website?
- To fix JavaScript Library Vulnerabilities:
- Website Scanning
- Malware Removal
- Vulnerability Patching
- Website Backup
- Web Application Firewall (WAF)
What are the benefits of Website security?
What are the security operations that we provide?
- Logging and monitoring activities
- Securing the provision of resources
- Applying resource protection techniques
- Incident management
- Disaster recovery
- Business continuity
Conclusion
Closing
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What is Website Security?
Generally, web security is referred to the protective measures and prevention we take to prevent organizations from cyber threats and cyber criminals through website servers over the internet.
Your work doesn’t end after you launch your website, ensuring security is a major success of your website. Cyber attacks can hit your website hard with costly clean-up techniques to recover from the attack, discouraged visitors. Prevention is better than cure, it is always said to take effective ways to make your website secure rather than suffering from after-effects and losses later.
Website security is becoming challenging each day. Let us know about the type of attacks that creates a threat for your website,
What are the website security threats?
As we discussed, for a road to a successful website you need to have your security tight, the common threats that attack your website are,
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
XSS is a classic term that describes an attacker inject client-side scripts to other users through the website. The injected code comes to the browser through the website, the code that is injected that looks trusted and can send user site authentication cookie back to the attacker. After the attacker gets the cookies, they can log into the user’s profile and do any unauthorized tasks and steal sensitive information such as credit card details, contact details, or change your passwords for later access.
A persistent XSS occurs when the malicious script is stored on the website it is later displayed for the user when the script is executed and sends the attacker the sensitive information that is required for accessing the user account. The XSS is a popular attack as the attackers usually don’t get caught due to indirect engagement with the victims.
- SQL Injection
SQL Injections are the same as XSS but the attackers inject arbitrary SQL code on the database, that allows data to be accessed, modified, deleted irrespective of the roles and permissions are given by the users. An injection attack can steal identities, copy similar fake ones with exactly the same details, have rights and access over all the data on the server and make it unstable.
The vulnerability is present in the SQL statement that is passed while any input takes place.
- Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
CSRF is using the credentials of another user and logging into the website without any knowledge of the user or consent.
This type of attack can be explained as, suppose Naruto is malicious existing user into the website and sends money to another account using a specific mode of money transfer. Naruto creates a form that consists of his bank details and amount and other personal information. Later the cookies of Naruto’s form are stored in the server and whenever someone sends money through online mode the transaction is associated with the cookies sending Naruto the money and making Naruto rich.
These are the common types of threats that are seen on a website, the other types of threats are,
- Denial of Service (Dos)
Dos is achieved by flooding the website with blank and fake requests that block the legitimate users from accessing the website and all of your website resources are used up over those malicious fake packets. The request may be numerous that it exceeds your bandwidth and your website may crash.
- Clickjacking
As we mentioned above clickjacking is usually used after a DoS to the website. In this attack, a malicious attacker hijacks clicks that are visible on a website. This technique is used to make the user unwillingly click the button and capture the login credentials that are confidential to you.
- Directory Traversal
In these attacks, a malicious user attempts to access the confidential parts of the website that should not be accessed. This vulnerability occurs when the malicious user is able to get through the path through which you have stored your files including file system navigation. The solution is to sanitize input before we use it.
- File Inclusion
In this attack, the user can get the unintended file for the execution of data on the website server. When the file is loaded on the webserver it can lead to an XSS attack. The solution for this is running a proper scan and intending an unintended file.
- Command Injection
In a command injection attack, a malicious user gets access to the arbitrary system commands on the operating system of the host. This can certainly danger the owner’s OS and the website. The solution for countering these attacks you need to sanitize user input before it might be used in system cells.
These are the major and common threats that your website is in danger of being attacked from. You can find major activities taking place on your website too. Therefore, you must run proper test scans and find a proper service provider for the security of your website from these threats mentioned above.
These threats mess up with your website’s good legacy and user trust making it difficult for you to recover from.
All the security exploits are usually completed due to the web application’s trust in the data from the browser. Your website must contain filters and firewalls to be protected from these attacks and sanitize all the data originating from the browser before displaying it to the webpage screen.
You need to make your website secure because you, your self don’t visit a site with vulnerabilities,
Ask yourself whether you would like to visit a website full of vulnerabilities,
Would you visit a website with vulnerabilities that shows a warning that the connection is not private?
The answer to your question is, obviously no. No one accepts a website that asks permission for cookies or gives the warning connection is not private. You are protective of your data and reject the permission for the cookies or leave the website that is not secure that does not contain a padlock before the URL or contains a danger triangle.
No user wants to use a website that is low in performance and weak in security. Sometimes users might wait for the page to load when it comes to performance but they don’t compromise with security reasons as they need confidentiality and integrity to their website.
You might be wondering about the hype of security of your website and this is a very common question that arises to your mind and that is,
Is there really a security risk?
Yes, the security risk is the main concern. Nearly, 55%-60% of internet traffic is an automated source for malicious acts such as hacking, spamming, and contain impersonators and bots that can be a real security issue for your website.
Small business owners and medium business owners usually have a question in mind that,
Does my business have a risk online?
SMB that select online trading and business contribute to the largest number for contributed credentials in malicious acts. SMS also requires security to their data as small websites are easy to target by attackers. Hence, making security an important concern in website security.
SMB has more digital assets that are valuable for attackers, that can bring huge profits to these malicious users. As larger enterprise companies have more security standards that make SMB the most targeted ones.
The methods through which you can make your website secure for SMB are,
- Using HTTPS and Removing Security Vulnerabilities through SSL
The SSL is a secure socket layer that makes a firewall between your browser and server filtering out the data that is irrelevant or can be a threat to your website. Usually, websites have HTTP in URL but after having an SSL your website turns into HTTPS where S stands for secure.
- TLS (Transport Layer Security)
It is a protocol that provides authentication, privacy, and data integrity to your website. There is a hacking term known as the man in the middle attack where a hacker places a small breach in the program of your server of the website that can be used for exploitation and TLS prevents that from happening.
- Front-End JavaScript Library
A library that is written beforehand in JavaScript allows for easier development and detects the changes over comparing JavaScript-based applications.
These are the techniques you can use as basics for prevention of your website from being attack while owning an SMB.
The most asked question when it comes to security is bot management important and why it is given a priority when it comes to security.
Why bot management is important?
Many underlying and undetected bots can damage your website and your brand by stealing sensitive and confidential information that can impact your revenue and bring a negative name to your brand.
Bots can affect your website in various ways such as,
- Application DDoS that jams your website servers with too much malicious traffic
- Slows sites for visitors by DDoS attack by extending the visitors by your current bandwidth and waste your resources.
- Content spamming is a huge risk when it comes to bots
- Bots can pollute your data and create a bad customer experience degrading the credibility of your website.
- Credit card sniffing or stealing confidential payment details
- Content scraping
- Degrades your SEO rankings and gets more pressure on you for the performance of your website
- Huge impact over your brand and spoils the relationship with the suppliers
- Credential stealing
- Exposing your application for breaching and stealing customer data that can bring your website name down
These are the issues you can face due to exposing bots to your website without filtering out and not using bot management methods.
Therefore, it becomes important for your website to carry out bot management making it very much important.
How to fix the vulnerabilities that are a threat to your website?
Intruders use crawlers for your website that figure out the vulnerabilities of your website security.
To fix those vulnerabilities that IntCIS provides you are,
- To fix JavaScript Library Vulnerabilities:
You should stop using JavaScript libraries that contain vulnerabilities and coding errors. Upgrading your library and keeping it up-to-date keeps it more secure.
- Website Scanning
We provide website scanning that instantly checks the vulnerabilities that damage your website, figures out if there is any malware or threat damaging your website, and helps you with the issues.
- Malware Removal
Detection of malware and virus later on we remove the viruses that are present in your website making your website environment more secure.
- Vulnerability Patching
We get through your website and check with all the vulnerabilities of your website and later patch those vulnerabilities with your CMS after scanning with any exploitations.
- Website Backup
We securely back up your website and protect against ransomware and hardware corruption making your backup reliable if your website goes under any kind of attack.
- Web Application Firewall (WAF)
We provide you with a powerful WAF that will filter out all the cyberthreat that can damage your website and steal your data including the top 10 threats that can damage your website through your servers.
IntCIS uses the four-step method that is to connect with you, scan for any changes or breaches, fix your security issues and protect your website from any future attacks.
What are the benefits of Website security?
The benefits of website security are as follows,
- Creates trust among the users using your website and makes a good impression
- It improves your SEO ranking as your users and visitors are happy with the peaceful environment you provide.
- It establishes the credibility of your website
- Your website speed is enhanced due to no attacks and more updates that contain security patches as well as other features
- Protected user information
Hence, these are some benefits that you get while you keep your website up-to-date with security
What are the security operations that we provide?
Our security operations consist of,
- Logging and monitoring activities
We log into your website administration and monitor all the activities and notify if there is a change detection or threat to your website.
- Securing the provision of resources
We secure the resources that are used for websites and servers and make sure they don’t get trapped into a DDoS attack.
- Applying resource protection techniques
We apply resource protection techniques for your resources not being over the bandwidth length.
- Incident management
We manage your account when the attack takes place and stop the attack by various methods to secure your website and save it from crashing or being exploited.
- Disaster recovery
We provide backups for disaster recovery and update your website more securely if any attacks have been taken place.
- Business continuity
We ensure full updates and bringing your website back on track so that you can continue with your business.
Conclusion
These are the reasons you need website security for your website and it is essential for maintaining website name and legacy.
Closing
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