Tuesday, August 05, 2008
PHP security
Creating your own website is a bit more complicated than you might think. Sure there are the easy user friendly programs that make setting up your own website fun and easy. Then there are the marketing aspects of the website which add a little bit more complicated process to the site. You need to have a well marketed website with lots of traffic which means more money for you and obviously that is what we all want. So that's it, all you have to do to get up and running? Well, not exactly. In addition to the initial set up and maintenance of your site and of course the marketing and driving in of traffic, there is one very big factor that you should consider and that is the security of your website, especially if you think that you are using a secure shopping cart and checkout. You see, the hackers know just how to break through the PHP security and get into your site. They are especially good at hacking into the shopping carts and checkouts in websites giving them easy access to your customer's personal information and credit card numbers. This can be pretty frightening as a small business owner, the idea that someone else could hack into your site and do harm to one of your customers is very disturbing, especially if the customer thinks that you are the one running around abusing access to their information, that could be deadly to your business.
Don't worry there is hope for keeping your website secure and safe from hackers. Web application security can keep you one step ahead of the hackers and keep your customer information confidential. Using web application security can allow you to sleep at night knowing that your website will not be invaded while you sleep as some poor unsuspecting customer is entering his information into your website thinking it is secure, while someone is lying in wait to rip them off.
I know you thought you had everything covered, but believe me, without a web application security system on your site you are vulnerable.
Mike @ 12:30 PM