Tips To Improve Joomla Cms Security

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Joomla is a dynamic Content Management System that allows organizing and managing the website content. Joomla is growing continuously and getting popular amongst more and more individuals and businesses. Being so popular, the malicious hackers are every time finding new unique ways to gain access to the data. This makes important to strengthen the walls of this CMS.

Most of security issues are due to poorly written, unsecured and out-of date third party extensions. The first thing to do to ensure security of your CMS is to make sure that the CMS is properly patched, updated and secured. Some useful tips for better Joomla CMS security are being discussed below –

1] Proper Management of Extensions
Joomla is popular worldwide due to third party extensions but these extensions can be reason of your Joomla website getting attacked. Every extension should be checked that it is updated and so it is always advisable to install only extensions that are needed. While using any extension – the code review should be done, the test suite should be used to review the results first, and the code should be updated if ...
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2] Secure Servers and Hosting
Server errors can occur due to unpatched servers, open ports and weak shared hosting. On shared hosting, though your site is set up properly it can be hacked by hackers thru another site on the shared server. The most important thing that needs to be done to secure Joomla site is to make sure that you are using well-known secure host and the server patches are updated.

3] Removal of Unused Files
Most of the times the extensions installed are never used. Developers don’t pay attention to these unused things which can lead to unseen liabilities. These unused files should not be unpublished; they should be uninstalled for avoiding problems completely.

4] Be ready with Backups
Proper planning should be done before your site being hacked – that is backups should be taken regularly. With proper backups, there will be fewer burdens when the site is actually being hacked. This will ensure that the site can be restored without significant downtime or loss of data.

5] Use of Search engine friendly URLs
By using search engine friendly URLs for the Joomla website there will be two benefits – it will be useful to boost Google ranking and it will also prevent hackers from finding exploits using Google search or other tools.

6] Turn off the Joomla FTP Layers and Register_globals
By disabling Joomla FTP layer it can be ensured that the login details are not being stored and also it allows third party extensions to work smoothly. Also, the Register globals should be turned off for security purposes but it should be taken care as this may lead to disabling some PHP scripts to work and it may also affect other programs that the site is using.

Other than these things, many other precautions should be taken to avoid website hacking. This includes – password protection, database tables’ protection, Extension version numbers removal, and many more. There are many things that is important to be maintained and updated on a regular basis.

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