Stay Smart Online Small Business Guide
Get some excellent advice for securing your business online from the folks at Stay Smart Online by clicking on the link below to view in your browser or download. The Small Business Guide 2nd Ed. is well worth the read if you consider your business worth protecting 😉
Keeping your website secure
Some months ago we started trialling Wordfence as a security measure for our own websites and our client’s websites to evaluate the efficacy of this software service. Having this installed on a website is the equivalent of the antivirus software on your computer that protects against malicious hackers gaining access and doing really horrible things than can damage your website, your company’s reputation, or your wallet by holding your site to ransom. Wordfence compiles a list of intruder countries, IP addresses and uses advisories and clever defence techniques to keep your site protected beyond just using a username and password. At this point, we have installed and provided this service for free, but later we will be offering a yearly fee for those who wish to retain this service in the future (to be announced). Do the 2 Step While we believe that a strong password is important (you can read Google’s advice here),…