View Full Version : Tool to protect my web site
masoudS
09-21-2007, 06:31 PM
I am having a lot of trouble with spammers and hackers. I am currently hosting my site on a windows server.
What is the best tool that I can use to protect my web-site. The tool should be easy to use and require no JAVA or Pearl and other programming languages as I am not familiar with them.
whitehat
09-21-2007, 09:30 PM
I am having a lot of trouble with spammers and hackers. I am currently hosting my site on a windows server.
What is the best tool that I can use to protect my web-site. The tool should be easy to use and require no JAVA or Pearl and other programming languages as I am not familiar with them.
A unix server for starters. :D
There is no 'single' tool that can cure all your problems....server security is a very complex and deep area ;)
But if you have to keep windoze due to not knowing unix...I would say..
make sure the box is fully patched...daily
Make sure you have a good hardware firewall in place (a Cisco is a good start)
Im guessing you run apache? if so make sure its fully patched along with all of your other apps like mysql etc
I dont run windoze servers (only Nix) but install some software like tripwire and possibly a software firewall as well, to add an extra layer of security to your server.
Also, run some vulnerability testing on your site and make sure there are no gaping security holes
You might also consider something like:
http://www.scanalert.com/site/en/merchants/intro/
Best of luck!:)
Ramsay
09-28-2007, 09:26 AM
According to me Advanced HTML Encrypt & Password Protect allows you to encrypt HTML pages with strong encryption algorithms and protect them with a password.
whitehat
09-28-2007, 09:35 AM
According to me Advanced HTML Encrypt & Password Protect allows you to encrypt HTML pages with strong encryption algorithms and protect them with a password.
Yes.
but the rather large downside of that is none of the search engines will index your site ;) as it will be meaningless gobbledygook to them!
Also, some corporate antivirus solutions flag web page encryption as a Virus..and block your site.
We had this lately and had to remove an encrypted javascript item on one of our pages!