You now know that securing your website is important for protecting you, your brand, and your customers. You know what to look out for and what defense layers you can implement to protect your “castle.” Now, let’s start building your defenses! Complete a website security audit First, let’s audit what security feature you currently have…

As Lesson 3 showed us, attackers use multiple means to hack websites and cause all kinds of havoc. Good news! You can make a secure website with a similar strategy of creating a multi-pronged approach to security. In this lesson, we’ll cover 7 main defense layers: domain privacy, secure CMS, SSL, firewall, monitoring, malware removal/remediation,…

There are multiple types of security threats. Being aware of some common threats can help you have a plan in place to address these issues. Threats can look like software vulnerabilities, password attacks, or even disaster events.  Attacks on software code vulnerabilities Attacks on software code vulnerabilities are when attackers find weaknesses in the code…

Website security is important, because your website is the gateway to your business. You don’t want to lose control of it to a hacker like in the image below. A secure website will help you avoid security incidents that can be damaging to your brand or your visitors (i.e., customers). If you’re hacked, you can…

Welcome! Congratulations on making it to the last course of the Empower by GoDaddy course series! (Don’t worry, if you skipped ahead, we won’t tell. You can always go back to past courses to learn about building your brand, email marketing, SEO, and more.)  You’ve poured blood, sweat, and maybe even a few tears into…