03 Jul 24
Vacations are times to disconnect and enjoy. However, for many CTOs, leaving the company website unattended can be a source of concern. At Transparent Edge, we understand the importance of peace of mind on your days off. Therefore, we have put together this guide so that you can enjoy a stress-free vacation.
Here are the key points to consider in order to ensure your websites are protected and performing optimally while you’re away.
A Web Application Firewall (WAF) acts as a barrier between your website and the outside world, filtering and monitoring traffic in real time for malicious requests and security risks. Implementing a WAF is essential to protect your sites and APIs from common threats such as SQL injections, XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) and other application attacks or vulnerability exploitation.
Our WAF technology can be integrated whether your sites are on our platform or others. You will not need to define rules and it gives you instant protection. Ensuring minimum latency while still protecting web applications.
Sophisticated malicious bots can wreak disasters on your website, from taking over accounts, denying inventory, taking customer data, to scraping content and compromising security. Implementing bot mitigation solutions is crucial to maintaining the integrity and performance of your site.
Bot Mitigation from Transparent Edge is an easy and quick feature to install, it does not require mounting in your infrastructure, so it protects from the most advanced and evasive bots from the first moment. Get started with just a couple of settings tweaks. Additionally, Bot Mitigation is GDPR compliant and does not impact business-critical traffic.
Regular software updates are essential to maintaining the security and performance of your website. These include updates to the operating system, CMS, plugins and any other software used.
Check to see if you’re on schedule for patching and updating your calendar, and automate where possible. Test before deploying whether you’re near vacation or any time of year you’re making updates.
Why are they necessary? Security audits help identify vulnerabilities and ensure that all security measures are working correctly. If you do not have an internal team to perform them, you can consider hiring external services. Implement their recommendations and perform pentests or simulate attacks to verify that vulnerabilities and weaknesses have been resolved.
Make sure all your SSL/TLS certificates are up to date. Implement data encryption both in transit and at rest to protect your users’ sensitive data. Additionally, configure to force browsers to interact only over HTTPS.
Stay vigilant with tools that allow you to detect problems in real time and act quickly to resolve them. Adjust custom alerts to suit the specific needs of your sites.
Our Anomaly Detection system analyzes patterns and identifies alterations in the traffic of your websites, notifies when these occur and offers the possibility of activating our systems to, if necessary, react to an incident, for example if your site were suffering. a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS).
Automating response to attacks can significantly reduce response time and mitigate damage. Proper planning includes defining and automating the actions to take in case of different types of attacks.
Set up alerts and notifications so that they reach the people who will be in charge of the operation during your vacation.
Leave a communication protocol organized so that everyone knows what things they need to resolve and what urgent cases require contacting you, so you can relax during your well-deserved rest time.
Happy Holidays!
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