| Protection against hacker is a top priority as for maintaining the reputation of the website. Copyrighting the website protects the website against the blatant content theft. Copyrighting the website helps in protecting the content of the website from people who copy the content word by word and place the content in another website. In a website sensitive files, database and scripts are protected using passwords.
Files are created to inform search engine not to index the files that are restricted to certain users and also disallow indexing of images so that users who search for images for illegal use do not steal the images. One must make sure that files are set to proper permissions. For protection purpose upload images as binary and most other files as ASCII files.
For safety purpose remove all the unnecessary files. When the changes are made in the website old files are ignored as they must be removed because old files are always indexed by search engine, lists them for Internet users to find and visit. One must keep all the files up-to-date. External style sheets and JavaScript are use to protect the source code. Make use of copyright information for each page and meta tags for every web page and watermark all the images.
Server level security includes separate web and database servers for different physical machines. Only authorized accounts have the capability to run tasks on different machines as dis means not giving admin rights to the user account. Minimize the number of services running on the server as to limit the services to only those required for the web or database servers to function. Physically securing the network to prevent eavesdropping via encryption or obfuscating the data amongst noise.
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