Web Site Security 1

[msammut]

What are the security risks associated with a public web site? Are there any steps I can take to keep my site secure?

msammut

 

[ca8msm]

That's a hard one to answer. There are so many security risks but it depends on how you define security and what you need to secure (e.g. DDoS, sensitive information etc).


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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You'll need to be a bit more specific. Do you mean risks from hackers taking down your site? Do you mean risks from hackers getting secure data that is stored server-side? Do you mean risks from people "stealing" your content? Do you mean something else entirely?

Dan



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[Wullie]

How long is a piece of string?

Security depends on a huge amount of factors and it is not something that we can tell you a few things and you are secure.

One major step that you can take is if you use any third party scripts, update them as soon as the vendor releases a patch. If you have a common third party script which is outdated and contains security holes, you are leaving your site and the server open to the world.

Hope this helps

Wullie

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[msammut]

Thank you for your replies. There is not any sensitive information on this web site. It is actually a very simple and basic project to give our company a web presence. Information about the business and a few pictures. Although the pictures are our work. We do not want anybody else downloading or saving them and trying to pass it off as theirs. That would be my only security concern. Any suggestions.

 

[Wullie]

You would need to watermark them in some way then, it is not possible to stop people from downloading them. Or, you could just put them behind password protection, but then everyone who needed access would need to know the passwords.

Hope this helps

Wullie

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[harrymossman]

Put up smallish, low resolution images (which you should nearly always do anyway.) Just large enough that people can appreciate your work. That won't stop someone from using the images on their own sites but the images won't have any commercial value. That plus Wullie's watermark suggestion should pretty well protect you.

 

[glenmac]

It's not perfect but using CSS you can position a tranparent .gif or .png image on top of the image you want to protect, thereby slowing anyone from downloading your image.

Glen

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[trollacious]

The Internet Movie Data Base website often uses this technique, making the actual image a background image and placing a transparent GIF over the top that's stretched to the appropriate size.

Lee

 

[feherke]

Hi

Yes, that would be a problem for Explorer users. But FireFox users could install the View Image Backgrounds extension.

Feherke.

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[Sheco]

Perhaps you could use a hosting service for your public web site. This way if you web site is compromised, it cannot be used as entry to the remainder of your network.