Website Security - Too Often Overlooked
These days, most companies have a pretty firm handle on the basics of network security.
There have been too many successful hacking incursions into major companies not to, and the businessman who does not mind this part of his duties is all too often in for a nasty surprise as data is lost or stolen.
One aspect of company data protection that tends to get the short end of the proverbial stick, however, is the protection of the company's website.
Certainly, if your website is constructed in such a way that it draws data from behind your company's firewall, that portion is protected (or at least it is in most cases, and if it isn't, it surely should be), but the portal itself is sometimes just left more or less to its own devices.
This is a dangerous oversight, and if that describes you, your business, and the state of protection you've got in place for your company's web portal, then I urge you to reconsider.
While it's true that most companies do not have their websites constructed in such a way that key, or critical information actually resides the server that the website is actually hosted from, in many cases, the data to be found there is more important than you might first realize.
Just one such example would be a customer service forum.
If you have such a forum in place, it can be a rich mine indeed, for a would-be hacker, and careful examination of forum posts can reveal a chink in the armor of your network security in general, which might be exploited.
If, not, a reasonable representation of your customer base can be gleaned from hacking into the forum's control panel and making off with your list of registered members, and if you have no customer-oriented forum, perhaps you've got a portal containing a forum allowing for communication between your employees.
Facilitating the sharing of ideas, communicating with members of your supply channel, and the like.
This too, can provide a rich vein of information for a would-be hacker.
If you are uncertain, or have any doubts about your website's security, make arranging for an audit of your web portal a priority, in order to identify potential security issues before they come back to haunt you.
There have been too many successful hacking incursions into major companies not to, and the businessman who does not mind this part of his duties is all too often in for a nasty surprise as data is lost or stolen.
One aspect of company data protection that tends to get the short end of the proverbial stick, however, is the protection of the company's website.
Certainly, if your website is constructed in such a way that it draws data from behind your company's firewall, that portion is protected (or at least it is in most cases, and if it isn't, it surely should be), but the portal itself is sometimes just left more or less to its own devices.
This is a dangerous oversight, and if that describes you, your business, and the state of protection you've got in place for your company's web portal, then I urge you to reconsider.
While it's true that most companies do not have their websites constructed in such a way that key, or critical information actually resides the server that the website is actually hosted from, in many cases, the data to be found there is more important than you might first realize.
Just one such example would be a customer service forum.
If you have such a forum in place, it can be a rich mine indeed, for a would-be hacker, and careful examination of forum posts can reveal a chink in the armor of your network security in general, which might be exploited.
If, not, a reasonable representation of your customer base can be gleaned from hacking into the forum's control panel and making off with your list of registered members, and if you have no customer-oriented forum, perhaps you've got a portal containing a forum allowing for communication between your employees.
Facilitating the sharing of ideas, communicating with members of your supply channel, and the like.
This too, can provide a rich vein of information for a would-be hacker.
If you are uncertain, or have any doubts about your website's security, make arranging for an audit of your web portal a priority, in order to identify potential security issues before they come back to haunt you.
