An A-Z of web hosting security best practice

Davey Winder shares an alphabet soup of tips that will help keep your website safe from attacks

Online breaches are big news and have big impacts on big business. But what about the small business operators? The ones who can’t afford to outsource their web security, let alone to fund in-house security teams? More often than not, these businesses rely upon their hosting provider to have systems and processes in place to provide adequate protection. It’s a reliance that can prove problematic when the cyber hits the fan. The truth is that security issues reach way beyond the headline data breaches you read about online. It’s a fallacy that all, or even a majority, of web attacks are highly targeted: the vast majority are truly random, the result of automated scripts and scans throwing a net across the web to catch sites with security weaknesses. “Web hosting can be…

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