How to protect your website from Malware?

Malware being a software that damages and disrupts the websites can be malicious. It causes your website to crash. A website that regularly crashes is frowned upon by users and after some time, they stop using it. As a result, you lose your potential clients. Malware is also dangerous becuase it could lead to hackers gaining access to your website, files and folders and most importantly, database. If that happens, important information about your company leaks out and your secrets woulnd't be secrets anymore. In addition to that, if your database is hacked, imperative information about clients, like their addresses, phone numbers and especially their credit card information could leak. Malware could even spread viruses that enter the computer systems of anyone who uses your website and all their folders will be hijacked.
This dangerous software does not only damage your website, but it is in turn affacting you sales and hence, the profitability of your company. Your company's reputation is at stake and customers could lose faith in you, considering your portal unreliable and unsecure. If worst case scenario, if important personal information of your clients gets leaked, you could be dragged to court and sued.

Scary much? Exactly! But hey, don't worry! That's why we are here. We shall explain you via which you may protect your website from malware. Let's look into those ways.

The first and foremost thing that you need to do is to keep your website and scripts in your code up-to-date. The script that are installed in your code are created as open-source programs. Their code is readily available for the hacker, along with developers. Hackers skim through this code to find vulnerabilities and therefore, take control og your site by exploiting the weaknesses found in the scripts. So, keep the scripts UP-TO-DATE!

You must be opening multiple website, right? Do you ever notice the space where you write the URL? Do you ever see that some websites have HTTP as their prefix while others have HTTPS? Do you know what's the difference between them? Well, essentially, there is only a difference of an 'S'. But in real, this 'S' means everything as it stands for "SECURE". This means that the websites which have 'S' attached to their HTTP, are secure. Therefore, in order to secure your website, you need get an SSL certificate. You might need to spend a little on it, but hey hey hey, it's worth it and given how hackers are these days, it's definitely the need of the hour.

Furthermore, hackers can also hack your database. So you need to protect your SQL injections. When you have a database in which anyone can enter any information, hackers might inject malicious code there in order to get through important information of the client like their credit card information. In order to stop that from happening, you need to protect website from SQL injection hacks. This can be done by using parameterized queries. This way, your database has strict parameters and wouldn't allow hackers to mess with it.

Have you every noticed how difficult Apple has made the process of keeping password? You need to add this, you need to add that, you need to keep some letter capital, you need to add numbers but those numbers shouldn't be repeating and so..much..more..! So much that at times it gets annoying! Honestly, if you ask me, I don't even remember my Apple password and neither do I ever change it! But but but! They have done this for security. If you keep an easy password, let's say 123123, it's easier to decrypt and as a result, hackers can easily hack your website. So you need to devise a formula that doesn't permit your users to keep an easy password. This way, you're protecting you website.

Moreover, if you have a WordPress website, there are numerous plugins available that allow you to protect your website. They address security vulnerabilities in all platforms, foiling additional types of hacking attempts that could threaten your website.

So, the affects of Malware are DANGEROUS! But, if you follow the steps we explained above, don't worry, nothing could go wrong!