According to statistics from Gartner, 61% of businesses that do not care about network security are suffering serious economic losses, as well as a business reputation around issues such as information leakage, evaluation, data theft, user access interruption, or even loss of site administration rights. Therefore, choosing a suitable security service for your website becomes a top priority. Let’s learn with VNETWORK how to have a secure website for businesses today through the article below.
Website security
When the website is well secured, it will help businesses limit malicious access, and avoid modification and data theft from hackers.
At the international conference and exhibition on Cyber Safety, experts pointed out the situation at the end of 2019 when at the beginning of the Covid pandemic, users gradually shifted their activities to online cyberspace. Since then, every day there are more than 900 cyber attacks and 5 new malicious codes have been born, detecting 40 more network security vulnerabilities.
In the first 6 months of 2021, the Department of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention detected 1,555 attacks on the website or portal with the domain .vn (inserted with a hacker’s message). Of which, 412 pages are under the management of State agencies. Also at this time, the Ministry of Public Security discovered 2,551 cyberattacks, 5.4 million visits to the IP addresses of State agencies attacked with 15 variants of malicious code.
More alarming is the report of data from CGI 2020 (Global Cybersecurity Index) that ranked Vietnam 25th out of 194 in the world on the global cyber security index. In the past time, Vietnamese businesses have suffered from many cyberattacks targeting national information systems, spreading false information to deceive and appropriate property. This shows that website security should be a priority from the very beginning when building a website.
How to be secure in programming?
In order to limit the creation of web vulnerabilities in the process of building websites, there are some basic ways that programmers need to know to be more secure in programming as follows:
- Using modern, secure software frameworks JavaScript frameworks are one of the key components in modern web development. Most websites nowadays are built using modern frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular with a lot of security measures and benefits that make more and more people use them.
For example, the AngularJS framework, it is automatically resistant to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. Automatically encode user output data using {{output_data}} without using user input raw data.
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Setting up a Content Security Policy Content Security Policy is used to identify sources of safe content on a website that browsers can download to users. This is the basic countermeasure against the Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) hack.
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Disable iframe embedding to prevent clickjacking attacks Clickjacking is a form of attack that tricks users into clicking unintentionally on an object on a website. The purpose of stealing user accounts, tricking them into clicking on ads to make money, tricking them into liking the page The security in programming helps to minimize the vulnerabilities on the website.
However, for important websites or applications, more comprehensive security is needed. Therefore, the smart web application firewall solution is an effective website security method applied by many businesses.
Top 3 top website security services
1. VNIS (VNETWORK Internet Security)
VNIS provides the ability to protect websites against many types of attacks, with the mission to bring safe and optimal solutions for businesses thanks to outstanding features such as:
- Multi CDN
Content Delivery Network (CDN) with 2,300 PoPs CDN globally and over 2,600Tpbs total bandwidth. VNIS provides the ability to use CDN power-ups (the world’s leading CDNs) to help businesses easily upgrade and add CDNs to the Multi CDN system without having to negotiate contracts with many parties. The Multi CDN solution in VNIS also supports access to users in markets near China (China access) without the need for an internet content provider license (ICP license).
- Cloud WAF
Web application firewalls (WAFs) are located in many countries, providing businesses with protection against attacks from Layer 7 (application layer) that are often overlooked by internet service providers. In addition, Cloud WAF also has a Scrubbing Center system that supports the ability to analyze and remove malicious traffic including DDoS and published vulnerabilities. Cloud WAF also helps against security vulnerabilities such as XSS, SQL Injection, and especially the top 10 OWASP vulnerabilities.
- AI intelligent load balancing combined with real user monitoring (RUM) system helps balance the CDN network load, ensuring websites and applications are always up and running for users.
CDN load balancing based on RUM user analytics data ensures the site is 100% up and running even under attack. The interface manages all CDNs on a single platform, saving time and effort when businesses have to analyze and review many different CDN reports. With VNIS, everything is analyzed and compared in detail.
The SOC room system is available in many countries such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Vietnam,… combined with a team of experienced cybersecurity experts, ensuring 24/7 support for customers. The system also monitors, analyzes, and provides solutions against Layer 3,4, and 7 attacks. Ensures the best user experience.
2. Imperva Incapsula
Imperva Incapsula is an American cloud-based application delivery platform. The service uses a global content delivery network to provide web application security, DDoS mitigation, content caching, application delivery, load balancing, and failover services. Some of the standout features are:
- API Security
- Web Application Firewall
- Bot Management
- Provider application
- Runtime Protection (RASP)
- Data risk analysis
- Data security
- Application Delivery Control (ADC)
- Content Delivery Network (CDN)
- DDoS mitigation
- Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)
- Web Application Firewall (WAF)
3. Cloudflare
Cloudflare is an American company that provides content delivery networks, internet security services, and domain name server distribution services, standing between the visitor and the Cloudflare user’s hosting provider, operating acts as a reverse proxy for websites. Cloudflare’s standout feature makes your website faster and more secure by delivering your content across their global network. Cloudflare has a free anti-DDoS plan. However, the DDoS protection on the free plan is unlikely to protect you from threats like spam and malware or targeted DDoS attacks.
To learn more about how to register for website security, businesses can immediately contact our security experts at the information form below or call the quick support hotline at: (028) 7306 8789.