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Server security services: How can you prevent your site from getting hacked?

There are literally hundreds of things that you need to check to ensure that you are safe. This can include verifying your server security service settings and file permissions, passwords are arranged on a periodic basis, users are re-validated for continued business need. Apart from these, network settings are plaid on a periodic way and the firewall and router rules are certified on a timely manner. Adding to these things, your application code is tested for vulnerabilities in a timely fashion, your system are patched uninterruptedly without a solitary break of exposure, your anti-virus is maintained and checked daily for attacks and your intrusion detection systems are working and are being monitored. Therefore, you need a security professional for your server security services.

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Preventing site from getting hacked

  1. First of all, you should ensure that the things are which are hosted on your server is secure- you may order a professional security audit, or something similar like that. This is absolutely the coolest part of auditing your server. Someone who is at least intermediate skilled in web developing will find at least 1 bug in nearly every php (or any other) code out there.
  2. Second is, you may want to monitor everything what is behind your website, like your server, which is also not too hard to lock it up. You can get some security modules like grsecurity. Try to harden every connection you are using to access your server.
  3. While using certificates you must consider it. And if you need to max this out you could use a L2TP/IPSec VPN using certificates, and constitute any service on your server to just listen up to VPN IP. This would lessen the risk of being hacked enormously, because, if performed perfectly, only the VPN service is visible.
  4. If you have done all the above process, there are only 5 possibilities of being hacked:
  • If there is any Security hole in your OS itself
  • If the VPN service is not secure
  • If your certificate has been stolen
  • If your IT professional / auditor failed
  • If someone accomplishes to get physical access
  1. While hosting a server, you must care for the following security measures:
  • Use a 4 IP number network to connect to your ISP
  • Create a DMZ. Your entire servers are behind at least one firewall
  • You must use a firewall that provisions both white listing as well as  black listing
  • You should actually build a firewall on the servers itself. Even if it looks monotonous it is not.
  • Use an Operating System that is known to be secure: OpenBSD, Solaries, Debian.
  • You must install only those services that you need and eradicate the applications that are only meant to make the install. Debian, is very decent for removing these types of applications.
  • Do not open port 22 SSH on any IP number facing the Internet. Never try.
  • Use programs that will block brute force attacks, such as Fail2ban.
  1. You need to consider Network infrastructure, Hardware security, OS security, services hardening, firewall configuration and web application assessment. There must be appropriate layered mitigation and correct configuration & management of security devices for the environment.

The bitter truth is that there is no such thing as 100% secure. The instant you introduce “usability” into a system you also introduce risk. The trick is deciding on the balance between usability and security, setting that point of balance and then consuming your P&P and periodic valuation to make guaranteed that balance stays in place.

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