Web Security

Ensuring your website is safe and secure is a must for all website owners. If your website gets hacked it can get result in your website being reported and removed from search engines meaning you effectively become invisible online. By preventing your website from getting hacked you are ensuring that your online reputation does not suffer and you keep your data safe.

SiteLock monitors your website 24x7 for vulnerabilities and automatically prevents attacks, which means you can worry less about your site and more about your business. The SiteLock trust seal reassures customers and boosts sales. Over 70% of clients look for a sign of security before providing details online. You don't need technical expertise to install and set up SiteLock. It's cloud-based and starts scanning instantly.

An SSL certificate is used to encrypt a connection between the browser and server to safely transmit sensitive information. SiteLock actually protects the database where this information is stored, scans your website files and applications, protects from data breaches and spreading of viruses/malware. An SSL certificate does not provide these functionalities.

Hackers are always looking for ways to exploit weaknesses in websites for a variety of reasons. In some cases, it is to steal valuable or sensitive data such as customer records or credit or debit card details. In other cases, it is so that they can upload malware or use your website to send out unsolicited / phishing emails.

Hackers don't publish their methods but they usually exploit security weaknesses in a website. This could be through an out of date script or through a content management system like WordPress which has not been updated to the latest secure version.

SiteLock screens every aspect of your web presence daily to identify security gaps. SiteLock scans your website on a daily basis looking for known threats. It identifies threats and fixes them before they can be exploited, thus putting you one step ahead of hackers. It works in the background to protect your website, while its business as usual for you and your clients.

• Daily scans to make sure your website is safe and secure
• Automatic malware removal with ‘Fix’ or the ‘Prevent’ service
• SiteLock security shield to reassure visitors and Google that your website is safe

Your website is scanned once a day. You will see the last scan date on the SiteLock Security Shield that appears on your website. You can choose to set the scan daily, weekly or monthly.

Yes, if you are using the ‘Staticd’ Service there is a limit of 25 pages. If you use the 'Dynamic' service there is a limit of 100 pages. With the 'eCommerce' service up to 500 pages are scanned daily.

At first we need to scan all of your website's files. If you have a large website this will take longer than for a smaller site. However, over time, only new or changed files are scanned, so it will not have any long term effect on performance.

Malware can be installed on your website by hackers by exploiting vulnerabilities on your website. Hackers will try to get your website to execute the malicious code. This can potentially expose all client information stored in your database. With SQL injections, hackers also try to inject various scripts, often in the form of JavaScript. This malicious code can gain access to sensitive page content and may hijack your users' sessions. However, SiteLock's 360-degree website scanner protects you against these malware attacks.

A Web Application Firewall (WAF) is the security guard for your website. It inspects every request coming to your site, determines where the request is coming from and what is it trying to do. If it detects that the request is malicious, like a bad bot trying to scrape contact, it will block the request. The WAF also protects your website from comment spam, malicious bots and content scrapers

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) consists of a large set of servers distributed around the world. By detecting where the user is, a CDN is able to serve content from the closest geographical location to the user. The closer the server is to the user, the faster your website. The TrueSpeed CDN automatically compresses your content and reduces the amount of data that needs to be transferred from the server to the client.

The last thing you want your customers to see is a red warning message when they visit your website. This can happen if search engines have blacklisted your site. SiteLock also ensures that the email address you are using to communicate with your customers has not been blacklisted in industry spam blacklists. And if you use an SSL certificate on your website, SiteLock ensures that your certificate has not expired.