Best Security Focussed CMS: Drupal 8
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Drupal 8 is highlighted as the most secure content management system (CMS), showcasing robust security features like strong password policies, session controls, and multi-layered cache architecture to minimize attacks. Comparative studies indicate Drupal consistently outperforms competitors like WordPress, Joomla, and Magento in vulnerability assessments and is less frequently targeted for web application attacks. Its commitment to following OWASP standards and innovative technical improvements reinforces its position as a leading choice for ensuring website security.
Best Security Focussed CMS: Drupal 8
- 1. Best Security Focussed CMS - Drupal 8
- 3. Index ● Introduction ● Security features ● Major technical improvements ● Statistics are on Drupal’s side ● Conclusion
- 4. Introduction ● One of the most significant terms used on this planet is ‘Security’. You get to read about nutrition security. Or, you get to hear about cybersecurity. Often, you also get to see the emphasis being put on national security. ● Security also plays a key role in the web development arena. Website security is one of the most significant aspects that every business considers to thrive on and dominate the internet space. Drupal 8 stands out as the most secure Content Management System (CMS).
- 5. Security features With a proven track record of being the most secure CMS, Drupal has been performing much better than its competitors in the CMS market. Drupal Security Team is a force to reckon with when it comes to finding out anomalies and fixing them.
- 6. Security features ● You can allow safe access to your Drupal site as it has the in-built support for salting and repeatedly hashing account passwords when they are stored in the database. ● It also enforces strong password policies. ● It offers essential security modules, industry-standard authentication practices, session limits and single sign-on systems. ● It provides granular user access control.
- 7. Security features ● Database encryption can be done efficaciously. ● It is configurable to encrypt your complete website or just a part of it like content types, nodes, and taxonomy terms. ● Drupal’s Form API assists in validating data in order to avoid XSS, CSRF and other malicious data entry. ● It also limits the number of times login attempts are made from a single IP address over a predefined period of time which enables you to brute-force password attacks.
- 8. Security features ● The multi-layered cache architecture helps in minimising Denial of Service (DoS) attacks; thus making it great for high traffic websites and proving its immense scalability. ● Drupal conforms to the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) standards and its community is committed towards prevention of safety hazards.
- 10. Major technical improvements ● Removing the PHP input format in the core ● Twig templates has resulted in better validation of 3rd party themes ● Twig auto-escaping has also prevented most frequently found Cross- site scripting ● Tracking configuration in code has been streamlined with an auditable history of changes through Configuration Management Initiative ● Use of filtered HTML format for content entry ● User session and session ID management
- 11. Statistics are on Drupal’s side Sucuri, security platform for websites, compiled the ‘Hacked Website report’. Wordpress, Joomla, and Magento suffered the most.
- 12. Source: Sucuri
- 13. Source: Sucuri
- 14. MDPI, which pioneers in open access publishing, prepared a report called ‘A Comparative Study of Web Content Management Systems’. They used Acunetix software for auditing the website. They compared Drupal and Joomla in terms of most commonly occurring vulnerabilities - SQL injection and XSS. Drupal came out as the clear winner.
- 15. Moreover, in the Cloud Security Report by Alert Logic, Drupal was reported for the least number of web application attacks.
- 17. Conclusion Website security is the most important constraint to survive without any existential threats. Drupal has been the frontrunner when it comes to choosing the security focussed CMS.