Simple and-smart-security-tips-for-website -design-orange949
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This document provides tips for ensuring website security throughout the design and development process. It recommends analyzing security risks, defining security requirements, classifying information, and appointing someone to monitor security. Additional tips include making secure coding a priority, allowing sufficient time for secure development, validating all data, conducting security reviews at milestones, implementing audits and logs, integrating security into testing, including security measures in contracts, secure deployment, and defining disaster recovery plans. The overall message is that security should be a holistic consideration involving the entire website lifecycle from planning to management.
Simple and-smart-security-tips-for-website -design-orange949
- 1. 2 S. Biscayne Blvd. Suite 3760, Miami, Florida 33131 United States contactus@orange949.com http://orange949.com/ Simple and smart security tips for website design Website design features begins with the development cycle from planning, deployment, operation and management. It is essential to protect the website from malicious technology and people. The importance of design security Illegal products could severely damage a company’s revenues and customer credibility. Certain factors that could cripple a company’s financial support structure are quality issues and cloned products. Top security breaches for designs today Reverse-engineering occurs when Designs are cloned and sold with same or different labels Tampering (modifying or replacing a design for different objectives such as unauthorized services). A few tips for entrepreneurs to create a new website or to modify - Access and define security risks Analyze and define the security risks Define the security requirements Classify information Prepare a security policy Appoint a dedicated person to monitor Holistic view Security is not only preventing theft or damage, it includes website, Speed Availability Protecting confidential information from unauthorized users Accurate information Legal and regulatory requirements Business continuity Ability to learn from incidents Protecting business data It is vital to balance the level of security with ease of use and cost.
- 2. 2 S. Biscayne Blvd. Suite 3760, Miami, Florida 33131 United States contactus@orange949.com http://orange949.com/ Make secure coding Makes sure that the development team is working on a consistent framework; this will help developers produce high quality code. Software will contain errors; security risks can be minimized by proper training, development standards and guidelines. Allot enough time to develop website or web application securely. Don’t trust any data – either yours or others All data should be validated to protect users and the system. A website will have feeds from users and other sources so it has to be validated. Review and approve at each milestone Understanding the importance of security reviews will help in tackling security issues then and there to mitigate risks. Building change control methodology into the design process at each milestone will help reduce security risks. Apply built-in audits, alerts and loggings Frequent audits through sufficient loggings will help identify problems as they arise in a website. Protect logs from being altered to monitor user identities. Amalgamate security into testing program All projects are to be integrated for a structured testing to create test scenarios. Assimilate security in every service and contract agreements Be specific about the security measures that are expected from suppliers, partners and sub-contractors. Enable security monitors to detect security breaches and disclose them. Secured deployment Security issues can arise owing to the difference in development and testing in a live environment. Be aware to manage the setup and launch the website in a controlled and defined way to ensure all the security controls are intact to avoid additional vulnerabilities. Disaster recovery Always examine the actions that should be taken at the time of loss or disaster. Once a website is scanned and secured, it could be proudly displayed to the users and increase website conversion rates and online sales.