Do you still believe that your website is not prone to hacking because you are a small business? Or if you are running a blog then why somebody would hack your website? Well come out of these wrong notions. According to a survey report, 43 percent of cyber attacks target small businesses. A study quantified the constant rate of hacking incidents and they found that there is a hacker attack every 39 seconds. Hacking is not always done for money. Sometimes it is done to steal the data of the customers or to crash the site and other times it can also results in the loss of traffic from your website. So whether or not your business is small, it does not matter. Hence, it is really important to make your website secure.
Some common ways by which hacking presents itself
- Viruses
- Malware
- Ransomware
- Gibberish Hack
- Phishing
Now you must be thinking how you’re going to fight off hackers or how you can make your website secure. Here you must be in need of professional help. There are many agencies which provides you with web security services. One such agency is Citiesagencies.
Citiesagencies is well renowned web development agency which has team of experts and professionals specialized in web security. You must be thinking how Citiesagencies will be helping you in making your website secure. In this article I am going to discuss ways by which Citiesagencies will help you.
Lets dig right into it
How Citiesagencies will help you in securing your website?
➽ By installing SSL
Installing SSL or Secure Sockets Layer is one of the most common ways by which a website can be protected. You don’t need to worry about the whole process of installation. Our experts will be doing that job. Our professionals will be installing the SSL certificate to protect your website from hackers.
SSL basically encrypts information between your website and your users. Especially if you are running an e-commerce website, you need to have this SSL certificate cause the payment data and users login data is vulnerable to hackers without this SSL. So don’t worry Citiesagencies is there to help you out.
➽ By updating your website
This is another important factor. Updating your site is very necessary. An outdated website is more prone to hacking and is an easy target for hackers. Hence, our team will make sure that your site is updated regularly. We will be updating the website’s software. For instance, our team will run updates for your WordPress core software and any plugins that you have installed as well. Regular updates makes your site more secure.
➽ By using Anti-Malware software
Malware is a common weapon of hackers. So in order to get rid of these Malware our experts will be using Anti-Malware software. Anti-Malware software provides you services like Web scanning, Malware detection and removal, web application firewall and more. We will be looking after all these things to make your website safe and more secure.
➽ By running regular backups
All the above ways will definitely make your website secure but still we should not take any chance and should not take website security for granted. Because if your website is hacked then you need some sort of backup so that you can get up and run again to keep your customers with you.
So for that, we at Citiesagencies will be creating backups of your website as in case if any hacking activity happen you would still have the recent version of your site safe and sound and which can be relaunched. A backup is basically a copy of your website data such as files, media, content and databases. So, our team will be running regular backups as regular updates need regular backups.
To wrap up
Web security is a common theme we are observing in todays time and it is of utmost importance. It should be the priority of every online business because you would lose so much more than just money if your site get hacked. So with Citiesagencies you can make sure that you have all the safety measures in place in order to protect your website. I hope this article was able to answer all of your questions. If not, reach out to us.
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