216 - Basics of Website Security, Hacks and Vulnerabilities with Dan Cook

Dan Cook of RiskBuddi.com shares the basics of website security and the most important things you need to know in regards to keeping your website designs as safe and secure as possible to prevent hacks, breaches or other vulnerabilities.

In This Episode

00:00 - Introduction
03:19 - Greeting to Dan
05:49 - Accidental security
06:55 - Unintentional threats
08:10 - Domain vulnerabilities
09:44 - Holes in websites
12:04 - Using old tools
14:32 - 3 tier external backups
16:16 - Password issues
19:54 - Password management
24:53 - Limit users access on sites
26:05 - Plugin management
28:45 - Automatic updates or manual
30:00 - Other vulnerabilities
32:44 - Collecting data on forms
35:35 - Privacy & accessibility
37:58 - Selling the security onion
39:31 - Licenses
41:12 - Suggested tools
43:55 - Secure headers
48:32 - Doing a risk assessment
55:11 - Why security is needed     

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