Beware: Shared Hosting Environments
Too many people are unaware of just how vulnerable they are when they are using shared hosting environments, wordpress, plugins, third party scripts, and not following standards in their own development environments.
Sadly… too many people think “security” is simply updating wordpress and plugins or is something that someone else has responsibility to do for them. Nearly every day I see people who get hacked treat it like wiping up a water spill rather than taking real precautions to secure their business and identifying, and resolving the root issues.
Below is a shocking example… the company below did web development for “hundreds” of internet businesses as well as developing and marketing wordpress plugins. They were also a “shared” hosting provider:
http://www.bluelayermedia.com/
Before the hack
In contrast to the unfortunate situation of the company described above…
A note on PCI DSS compliance scanning and validation from McAfee Secure
Via Josh Anderson: Industry standard “Security” and data backups are just a couple of the many benefits companies who use services from Internet Business Ideas Inc. receive. Today we completed our latest round of internal audits and PCI DSS compliance scanning and validation from McAfee Secure (an amazing vulnerability detection tool I recommend for anyone in web development by the way).
Josh Anderson is CEO of Internet Business Ideas Inc. and Nanacast.com These are a 100% PCI DSS compliant Level 2 service provider.
Josh says, we take care of the hard stuff so you don’t have to.
