Tip #6
Limit Your Exposure to Areas Where You Do Business
If your website business sells widgets to a small area, limit the website traffic you will accept. If you own a restaurant in Milan and use your website to sell Cannelloni to the local neighborhood, limit acceptable traffic and input to your immediate area. Read more…
Tip #7
Be Paranoid About Backups
Good backup policies are essential. Backups, just like server logs are your friends. Backups are excellent resources to have when your site is down, your server has crashed or you are moving your website to a new server. But there is another equally important reason to maintain original backups.
Properly maintained original backups allow you to do file comparisons with your existing website.
Compare the files on your web server against your original secured files. Notice any file differences? If you do it is possible your site or server has been hacked. Read more…
Tip #8
Be Paranoid About Your Email Addresses
Everybody hates spam except the spammers. Spam accounts for close to 90% of all email communication. It’s big business. It’s profitable. For the chance to make a millions to billions of dollars with very little effort, spammers have a great incentive to make your life miserable.
Spam brings unwanted advertisements and the dangers of viruses, Trojans, malware, spyware, identity theft and control of botnets.
Receive email and chances are you will receive spam.
Your first line of defense is your email address. Read more…