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OK, you have created the world’s best web site which has got breath taking designs and extraordinary multimedia effects, but the bottom line is you have to publish it on the World Wide Web (WWW, popularly known as the Internet) so that it can been viewed by the public. As soon as your web site gets published online, it is ready to be a victim of the BAD internet. Your files and folders are prone to a large number of internet security threats. The fact is that certain aspects of the web sites cannot be protected. There is no single day till now on which all the web pages on the internet were free from viruses, spams, trojans or hacking attempts. If you are connected to a huge computer network such as internet, you are 100% exposed to malicious activities and thus, ‘Play At Your Own Risk’ is recommended.
Try to be safe up to the maximum possible level:
In order to be safe, the first and foremost thing required is that you should know about the types of internet threats as much as possible. The most dangerous and fatal practices used to destroy HTML files on the web are:
• Data theft in the form of pishing, hacking, spamming, spoofing etc.
• Destruction of HTML files and folders stored on the web server.
• Modification of the contents of the HTML documents.
• Hacking the complete web server.
• Different types of viruses on the network.
Carefully design a protection plan:
Once you have got to know about the possible online threats, the next step is to carefully analyze and design a protection plan for the HTML files residing on the web server. Following are some basic guidelines which can assist you in making a protection plan.
• Carefully separate the most important data from that which is not too much sensitive.
• After that examine and decide the level of protection needed for different types of data i.e. from the important ones to the casual ones.
• Examine the value of your web site on the internet. Analyze the page ranks of your HTML documents. This will let you know about up to what extent your web site can attract the hackers.
• Do consider the time, effort and money which you can spend for implementing, maintaining and upgrading the protection system for your web site in advance and proceed accordingly.
• Carefully choose the best possible company which can offer you the world class internet security services at an affordable cost.
Choose form a number of options to secure your data:
There are numerous of options available in the market which can be effectively combined to make a high-tech security system. The most internet security tools are anti-virus software, firewalls (both hardware and software), anti-pishing, anti-spamming and anti-spoofing systems, password protection, alarms, log maintainers, network intrusion detectors etc.