What Is Web Security?
Website Security can be a big worry when looking into setting up your own website. Un-wanted cyber attacks on your website can cause a costly clean up, reputation damage, and not to mention the customers who will be discouraged from using your website. This is why, at SK Web Design, you can prevent all of this from happening by looking into our specialist Web Security packages to help improve your website security.
First of all, what is website security? Website security refers to the action taken to ensure that your website data is not exposed to cyber-criminals. It also prevents any exploitation of your website in any way.
How we can help
Our specialist security packages can ensure that your website never gets hacked and your data is always safe. Our website security packages can protect you from:
- DDoS attacks – These can crash and slow down your site immediately, making it physically impossible for visitors to access your site.
- Malware – This is short for ‘malicious software’, used for the theft of sensitive customer data, the distribution of spam and the allowing of cybercriminals to access your site and all of the data in it.
- Blacklisting – Making your site hidden from all search engine results, also flagging your website with a warning, which can turn away customers.
- Vulnerability exploits – Cybercriminals can access your site by using this method of hacking and can look through all of your data. Then, they can use this data to exploit weak areas in a site.
- Defacement – This specific attack can replace your website’s entire content with the cybercriminals malicious software.
What Does Web Security Help Prevent?
Secondly, our website security packages protect your website visitors. The website security packages protect your visitors from:
- Stolen data.
- Phishing schemes – These phishing schemes are more widely known to happen in the form of an email; however it doesn’t just happen there. Some phishing attacks take the form of web pages which may look legitimate but are designed to hack into sensitive data and information.
- Session hijacking – these can completely take over a user’s session and force them to take unwanted actions, which can lead to data hacking and the gain of personal information.
- Malicious redirects – As simple as it sounds, this certain attack can redirect visitors to a completely different site in order to hack the visitors own data and information.
- SEO SPAM – These attacks can take the form of unusual links, pages and even comments, which have been put on the site to confuse site visitors and drive them to malicious websites.
As noted, all of these attacks, whether from the website itself or the site visitor, can be avoided by using a specialised and professional website security package from SK Web Design. When setting up your website it is important to keep these little details in mind, which is why we guide you into picking us, as we have the necessary technology and skills to help!
For more information on our website security packages, click on our ‘website security package’ tab on our website, or get in contact today!