5 Top Tips To Keep Your Website Secure
Website hacking happens on a day to day basis and believe us – it isn’t a nice experience. Website security is so important, so here are some top tips on keeping your website safe from those nasty hackers!
-
Update EVERYTHING
This is extremely important, especially if you have a WordPress website. Hackers tend to try and hack older versions of WordPress. If you’re running a CMS or forum from your website, it’s important to update these too.
-
Passwords & Usernames
You probably know that passwords should be complex with uppercase letters, lower case letters, numbers and characters to prevent hacking but did you know your usernames shouldn’t be so simple too?
If you have a WordPress website, the default username is admin, many hackers have recently tried to login to sites with admin as the usernames trying a range of common passwords.
-
Limit log In attempts
Only people you want, should know your password, and they should be easily able to log in with this with the minimum of tries.
Limiting your log in attempts is a great way to stop hackers or bots from accessing your website. You can even block an IP address after too many failed log in attempts.
-
Keep a backup of everything
We’ve all been there – losing all our data on our phones, it’s exactly the same with your website.
Making regular backups of your website is so important, and quite a lot of people don’t actually do it and end up regretting it.
If you have a backup of everything on your website, if the worst comes to worst and you do get hacked, you’ll be able to restore everything.
-
Use security plugins
There are so many different security plugins around, which are great for keeping your website secure. This will leave your website feeling less vulnerable.
