Tips To Effectively Secure Your Magento Store

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In e-commerce world, security is always been a major concern. This is because – online market always welcome cyber crime, that is, money is majorly stolen by online virtual criminals. This has increased the need of protecting the web store and businesses in a correct and efficient way.

Magento platform is integrated with number of in-built security features that are useful to keep Magento based website secure. But some additional steps should be taken too to protect the site from site hackers as well as from security violates.

1] Use of Secured Username and Password
The username and password used should be strong and uncommon. For example, admin or administrator words should not be used for Username as they can be easily predicted by hackers. For password, combination of letters that includes – capital letters, special characters and numbers, should be used to make it difficult to be guessed. If its difficult for website owners to remember their own passwords, they can make use of Password Manager to manage their passwords in a organized and secured manner.

2] Change your Login Location
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... default, Magento site owners need to access – yourdomain.com/admin for entering into admin dashboard. Its easy with Magento to change the location where admin can login. By clicking on Admin Base URL, change “use custom admin URL” to Yes and type customized URL with “/” at the end. This can be useful as mostly hackers are aware where admin login is being done so the only thing that remains to be cracked by them is username and password.

3] Use of SSL
Secured Socket Layer [SSL] makes sure that 3rd party is not able to access the data at the time of data is being transferred between client system and server. If Magento web store is integrated with SSL than at the time of transfer, the login information can be seen on the way it is sent from computer to server or vice-versa. This is useful to secure login and it also ensures customers that their credit or debit card details are safe.

4] Hide Secret key from the URL
Secret key is the unique key for each session login is done into Magento backend. It is provided to manage all the login done to enter the dashboard. But it is advisable to hide secret key from the URL for security purpose as it provides information to people about the login mechanism into the webstore.

5] Close all Loopholes
Never save passwords on your system or browsers, as it is very easy to reveal them into plain text from it. To avoid breach and for secuirity purposes, always set your computer and browser to never save your password. Moreover, the email id used to associate with the account should be the one which is not known publicly. This is because Magento has a very flexible feature of resetting the password if forgotten. At the time of resetting this email account need to be accessed to retrieve a new password. It gets very easy for hacker to crack the credentials thru this way if he knows the email address.

Other than these 5 precautions, always keep up-to-date antivirus software in your systems as viruses and trojans can easily steal the data and log your key strokes.

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