These days due to many security breaches and attacks on the servers, if your data is not secured then probably you fell prey for the online attackers and hackers. These attackers and hackers are targeting website of any size and making the business lose their credibility among the website visitors and clients. If you own a dedicated server you might have already come across many of the security terms and practices that your service provider follows to make your server secure. Still, there are some tips you should be taking to add another level of security practices to your servers.
- Keeping things up-to-date: Keeping the software and several security updates and patches up-to-date on regular basis is really very important. This should be the daily practices to update the OS updates and patches manually. You or your hosting provider should monitor and regulate these updates by yourself rather than relying on the automated software. Being proactive and ensuring the updates regularly is very critical for the server and this, in turn, reduces the risk of falling prey to an attack.
- Permit only Trusted Networks: You should gauge the networks through which you are receiving the traffic on your website. You should also restrict the server access through public IP addresses or unsecured networks. Also, you can restrict the server access in your organization. You should have admin access to servers only the main IP addresses should be allowed to log in.
- Use SSL and DDoS Protection: DDoS attacks are very common and it is really important to regulate the security measures for the DDoS protection into your hosting account. The DDoS protection filters the traffic at the upper layer itself such that you will have a genuine traffic on your website. Having an SSL certificate is also very important these days. If your website facilitates the purchase related to your product and services, it is used to secure your visitors/clients personal information like credit card, email, contact and many more. When installed on your servers the SSL certificates activates the padlock and secures the connection between web server and web browser.
- Backup: Backups are good security precautions for meeting the uncertainties and vulnerabilities. Backup secures you by taking a backup of all your important files and data into another server which can be accessed easily in disaster recovery. You can decide the backup frequency you want as per the criticality of your application. As and whenever required you can restore the file and the folder from the backup you have saved.
- Use server security checklist: Having a server security checklist in place ensures that you have checked and met all major factors and key areas when deploying a new server or doing a security audit on your existing servers. Reviewing and updating this server security checklist is also really important.
The steps listed above are some of the important factors that can boost the security of your dedicated server. By following these guidelines you can implement the security aspects of your server properly and effectively.