Drupal is one of the most preferred CMS around the globe, with the advent of Drupal 7 this amazing content management system has improved a lot more in terms of user friendliness and ease of use. Being such a popular CMS, Drupal has also became a target of hackers and cyber criminals.Though Drupal community provides their user with security fixes time to time, still the notorious trespassers always try to intrude your websites security. So check out few basic security tips that don't need any programing knowledge to shield your website against hackers:
Regular update of your Drupal website
This is quite generic and many people know that, regular updates of your Drupal website with the latest version will provide extra protection to your website against hacker. Drupal community provides several bug fixes with each updates that helps to protect your website.
Strong Strength "admin" Password
Password is the key of entrance of your website. So it is important that you have a very strong password that is not easy to crack by hackers. It is very essential that you phrase your password really carefully and after research to create a difficult password use alpha-numeric combination and upper case and lower case text.
Change Passwords Often
Once you created a password, you must ensure that you change it in a period of time. Once you designate a password for your website make it your habit to change it atleast once in a month. If you are using a same password throughout it can act as a big security risk for your Drupal website because if someone get to know your password, he/she can access, steal and destroy your website's admin data anytime.
Back-It-Up
Prevention is better than cure, securing your data by creating regular backup of your working website ensures that you won't loose all your data. When you make any changes in your website always create a backup of your data so that you can restore your website if you make any mistake. But before backing up you must take care that your data backup is not accessible through web and the backups is secured in local files and not on the web servers.
User Permissions System
Drupal provides a user permission system to the admin that helps webmaster to manage user permissions. This permission system assigns roles of users in the system and keeps unauthorized users restricted with the limited access permission. To use this system efficiently classify your users according to their assigned roles and grant them with limited access.
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