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Web Security
Is your website secure enough?
Internet becomes widely used all around the world. Various organizations are now set up their own websites adding value to their business. However, website security is possibly today's most overlooked aspect of securing the enterprise and should be a priority in any organization.
Importance of Web security
Companies' website usually are built with different web applications such as: shopping carts , forms, login pages or other bespoke applications which are designed to allow your website visitors to retrieve and submit dynamic content including varying levels of sensitive data. Secure web portal can safeguard those sensitive data and preventing from being stolen by hacker.
Insecure web portal with web applications would give easy approach to companies’ back end corporate database, sensitive information therefore is at risk to be embezzled.
Secondly, your customer may be another victim who takes risk of exposing his/her personal information if insecure web applications are used. Company reputation would be destroyed by providing unreliable service towards customers.
In fact, the number of security alerts issued on website are increasing throughout the day with 138 cases in 2001 to 308 cases in 2010 (statistics provided by HKCERT) and Gartner estimates 75% of all online attacks are aimed at web application which reflecting the importance of web security is getting more serious in Hong Kong.
How serious if your website are being hacked?
Here below is the real case-study of websites being hacked.
The below picture is a website before hacked
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The below picture is a website after hacked
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A few Steps to Secure Your Web Portal
Actually, there are only a few steps that can enough to secure your IT infrastructure and resources to prevent cyber attacks from hackers including using Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner(Acunetix WVS) to scanner our the vulnerabilities of your web portal and having professional advice to solve those vulnerabilities. Let learn more about it.
Internet becomes widely used all around the world. Various organizations are now set up their own websites adding value to their business. However, website security is possibly today's most overlooked aspect of securing the enterprise and should be a priority in any organization.
Importance of Web security
Companies' website usually are built with different web applications such as: shopping carts , forms, login pages or other bespoke applications which are designed to allow your website visitors to retrieve and submit dynamic content including varying levels of sensitive data. Secure web portal can safeguard those sensitive data and preventing from being stolen by hacker.
Insecure web portal with web applications would give easy approach to companies’ back end corporate database, sensitive information therefore is at risk to be embezzled.
Secondly, your customer may be another victim who takes risk of exposing his/her personal information if insecure web applications are used. Company reputation would be destroyed by providing unreliable service towards customers.
In fact, the number of security alerts issued on website are increasing throughout the day with 138 cases in 2001 to 308 cases in 2010 (statistics provided by HKCERT) and Gartner estimates 75% of all online attacks are aimed at web application which reflecting the importance of web security is getting more serious in Hong Kong.
How serious if your website are being hacked?
Here below is the real case-study of websites being hacked.
The below picture is a website before hacked
The below picture is a website after hacked
A few Steps to Secure Your Web Portal
Actually, there are only a few steps that can enough to secure your IT infrastructure and resources to prevent cyber attacks from hackers including using Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner(Acunetix WVS) to scanner our the vulnerabilities of your web portal and having professional advice to solve those vulnerabilities. Let learn more about it.