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Five cyber security strategies to keep your website safe

Firewalls, scanning and SSL may make website owner’s eyes roll in boredom. But there things become more interesting when those same owners get acquainted with brute force attacks, zero day attacks and other tools that compromise their websites.

Also, when people visit their sites, the owners don’t want visitors to see messages like this:

I wrote a post for GoDaddy that covers both the risks to websites as well as five ways to minimize those risks. Those five ways are:

  1. A web application firewall.
  2. Daily malware scans.
  3. SSL encryption.
  4. Timely software updates.
  5. A quality web host.

What security tactics would you add to this list?

By the way, you can read the original post here.