Steps for Password Protection
A hacker can gain access to your website the easiest way by gaining your login information. Usernames are often easy to guess. To prevent hackers from stealing your password, you must learn how to do so. Here are some quick tips.
Protect Your Password From Hackers
Unfortunately, there is no one-size-fits-all answer to the question of how to protect your password from hackers. The good news is that there are a number of individual steps you can take that, when combined, offer a lot of protection.
1. Choose a password that is both strong and unique.
There is no doubt that password management is one of the hottest topics in security today. We all know that most people cannot remember all the strong and unique passwords they are supposed to use for their various online accounts. Many people use password-managers to manage passwords, but this is controversial.
Let’s keep it simple, you need a genuinely strong and unique password for anything you do online. Those include your hosting console, your FTP/sFTP server, and your website. If you recycle the same password you use for other accounts, or even a variation of it, you are asking for trouble from hackers.
2. Wherever possible, use two-factor authentication
The TFA plugin is compatible with WordPress and many other content management systems. An encrypted password offers considerably more protection than a simple password. It is important to realize, however, that TFA is not a guaranteed security solution. When implemented via text messaging rather than through a token, as is generally the case with SMBs, it can be compromised. It should never be used as an excuse for using a weak password.
3. Ensure that your anti-malware program is effective.
A website vulnerability scanner is the first step you need to take. Every decent website vulnerability scanner will have anti-malware protection and a firewall for web applications.
Additionally, any device that connects to the back-end of your site needs to have an anti-malware product with an integrated firewall. Essentially, your internet-connected devices should all have one. Investing time, energy, and money into protecting your website is of no use if hackers can compromise one of your regular computers or mobile devices. They can get your account information that way.
4. Be cautious about where you link to your website’s backend.
Ideally, you should only connect to your website’s back end through a trusted connection. Virtual private networks (VPNs) should be used when using questionable connections, such as free public WiFi hotspots.
5. Reduce internal user count, especially for administrators.
Having fewer passwords, especially administrator passwords, reduces the chances of hackers gaining access to your account. When administrators’ access ceases to be needed, ensure that you have a clear process for revoking their access.
6. Users should be responsible for their own security and logins.
Even if you want to minimize the number of users, including admin users, you must be able to monitor what each user does. Users must have their own credentials so they can access the system exclusively. Credential sharing should be explicitly forbidden, enforced, and sanctioned if necessary.
This needs to be a straightforward process for creating users, which should be communicated to all relevant employees.
7. Implemented automated measures to protect passwords
With WordPress and most CMSs, you can take three simple steps that can significantly enhance the security of your passwords and thus your website.
Change your default login page first. It doesn’t need to be changed too significantly from the default, especially since it still needs to make sense to users. It is, however, necessary to alter it at least slightly since most hackers know the default login pages for the major CMSs.
A second solution would be to ban users after a certain number of failed password attempts. It is usual to keep this number at three or less. By limiting the number of opportunities to crack a password by brute force, it makes it more difficult to crack it.
The third step is to log out users after a certain period of inactivity. By doing this, people cannot use someone else’s login details to create another account. It’s important to remember that threats can come from within and without an organization.
