How to improve the security in your website

Website security has already been talked about for several years, but so far, nobody has been able to fully solve this problem. Until now, almost , every day or every week, we hear, the bad news that a website has been hacked by a hacker.
In the past, hackers attempts to hack websites were mostly because they wanted to show off. And hackers just did it for fun, but now, they do it illegally for profit.
Here we introduce some key elements that can help you avoid your website from being hacked.

1. Pay attention on the latest security warnings from your website server vendor and always upgrade with the lastest patches. If you used Apache, please link to http://www.apache.org and if you use Microsoft IIS, please go to Microsoft's security website http://www.microsoft.com/security/ to get more information.

2. Even if you have already installed the latest patches, you still have to read the setting of the user permissions rights of the web page. Every file has its own user permission rights on the server, these rights will decide which file could have some settings that you're supposed to know, like reading, editing, deleting and set the limited permission rights for these web pages.

3. If your website needs to use a database, please save the database ion another host server to avoid the network from reading and saving in a short time. Of course, the database also need to be set up based on vendor's directive.

4. If you use the website programs like ASP, .NET, PHP, Java, please check all of the code in the program to avoid security vulnerabilities. If you don't know how to check and fix these problems, you should request help from professionals.

5. After putting the website online, many people will start to ignore the problem of website security. But this is wrong. Now is the time to really start to pay attention. Please arrange a schedule for checking your website security. This is very important thing. Another mistake that is often made by staff in a company is that they often upload internal confidential information to the website. This happens all the time in big companies' intranet internet. So please add this to your checking list.

Note: Website's security is being updated every day. We are merely offering some easy points to help everyone. but we strongly suggest you read up more on this topic on your own