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6 Method to Secure Your Web Server

Technology has its own myths and facts. The more advanced the technology; chances are pretty high for certain adverse challenges. With the advent of information technology and online presence there is a huge increase in hacking attacks on the web servers. Considering this it has become very important for businesses and organizations to understand the foundation of these hacking and malicious activities on your web server.

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6 Method to Secure Your Web Server

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  1. 6 Method To Secure Your Web Server​

  2. Technology has its own advantage and disadvantages. The more advanced the technology; may lead to certain adverse challenges. The advent of information technology and online presence there is a huge increase in hacking attacks on the web servers. Considering this, it has become very important for businesses and organizations to understand the foundation of these hacking and malicious activities on your web server.

  3. #1 Perform Regular Audits & Secure Log in Safe Location

  4. Activity logs and files are very important and a well known fact amongst IT security professional. Most of the servers are public facing therefore it is imperative to execute this task for all the internet based services and solutions.

  5. #2 Protect Your Operating System & Keep Web Server Grounded

  6. Often with the overburden of tasks in hand the administrators they miss out on the patching of operating systems and web servers, thus, tools like Microsoft's Software Update Service (SUS) and Red Hat's up2date service come as a savior to automate this task.

  7. #3 Use Application Scanners

  8. This practice is really crucial and affordable too. Use internally developed application scanner code to protect the applications and ultimately web server. This practice will detect all the possible threats that can happen to your web server.

  9. #4 Maintain Separate Space for Development, Testing & Production

  10. The web applications if in their early stages of development, tend to develop several vulnerabilities may lack in input validation that result in inappropriate handling and can have a security breach.

  11. #5 Remove Unwanted Software & Extension

  12. Whether you are on default Apache server or on Microsoft’s web server, at times while installing some number of the pre-defined modules some extensions get enabled or installed, these are actually of no use but are installed to serve applications.

  13. #6 Use SSL Certificate

  14. SSL certificates are data files that are very small and are digitally bind. When they are installed in a server they protect the server and give secure connections by activating a padlock. Some other counterparts that offer online security services are keywords GeoTrust SSL, Comodo EV SSL, RapidSSLcertificate, and much more.

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