Top 10 Website Security Myths Revealed
Our latest guide looks at the top 10 security myths. Many companies fail to put in place the most fundamental protections to keep themselves safe. The problem is that many businesses have steeped themselves in the mythology that surrounds website security and bury their heads when it comes to the dangers that EVERY business faces.
To be truly safe, they need to move from ‘myth’ to ‘reality’, shoring up their defences, corporate policies, practices and procedures to the point where they can honestly say: “There is no more I can do” – and then look again and do even more.
Here's where they fall down.
1. Hacking - It won't happen to us!
2. Security risks can be quantified - How much would a security breach cost you?
3. Looking after security isn't my job.
4. SSL - Is yours broken?
5. I don't need SSL - I don't store credit card data.
6. All security certificates issued by a CA are the same.
7. Only low budget and shady looking websites are dangerous. Mine isn't so it's fine.
8. I don't need SSL on all of my web pages.
9. I have great anti-virus software - I'm protected.
10. We use a firewall so we're protected.
To read more about these myths download the guide here - https://symantec.smallbusinessessentials.uk/
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9 年The one about "all certificates are the same" is pretty much right though. you could qualify that a little (certainly all EV certificates are equivalent, and few people will notice or care if your "green bar" goes away because you have a DV cert instead) but as long as browsers make no distinction between the validity of a (say) GeoTrust cert vs one issued by a sublicencee of CNNIC (and only google certificate pinning saved us from that one) then the distinction is largely irrelevant....
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9 年A really helpful and worthwhile post Carleanne O'Donoghue - people do need to consider this and ask themselves those key questions.