You’ve probably heard of the blog software WordPress, or content management programs such as Drupal or Joomla. These open source tools provide phenomenal access to a better managed, more vibrant, and productive visitor experience on your website. They are called open source because their source code is freely available for anyone to use or adapt. Unfortunately, this means hackers have access to the code too, giving them an opportunity for exploitation.

Modern hackers have highly advanced tools at their disposal which can cripple your website, or worse, steal your data. Hackers have started exploiting vulnerabilities in open source platforms, and if your CMS is not properly secured, hackers can ruin your web reputation, or worse your business.

Having a security-focused web hosting provider can help prevent attacks. Before you trust any hosting provider with your website, ask them how they handle security for your website. Most hosting providers have an intrusion detection system (IDS), which simply notifies you after an attack. By that time, the damage has been done. This reactive approach does not provide real security, putting your website, your data, and your business at risk.

At FireHost, we use three layers of application protection to catch, stop, and prevent attacks. Our first priority is providing security to our clients, which we deliver through dynamic intrusion prevention. This is proactive security you can trust and rely on.