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\"website-security\"I was reading a Website Security<\/em><\/a> journal the other day and an article brought to mind an incident some 10 years ago that shaped the future of my company.\u00a0 Some of my clients can remember when their website went down in 2009.\u00a0 The cause?\u00a0 A hardware failure on a server farm.\u00a0 This was back before cloud backups were ubiquitous, and my web host stored backups, images and live websites all on the same machine.\u00a0 Yikes.\u00a0 I had to rebuild every website from backups I had (that didn’t include the latest content updates) and scraps from Google and other archives on the web.\u00a0 Not. Even. Fun.<\/p>\n

While most sites were restored within a few days, it was about 3 months before everyone was back up and running.\u00a0 That was a learning experience.\u00a0 At the time, I knew little about servers and such.\u00a0 I was a designer after all.<\/p>\n

Website Security Threat<\/h2>\n

These days, the threat of hardware failure has been replaced largely by hackers who desire to turn your website into a botnet which attacks other websites – or they simply hold your data for ransom.<\/p>\n

Website Security threat prevention or mitigation?<\/h3>\n

I regularly am contacted by folks who’ve heard about me through existing clients and need someone to ‘fix’ their website.\u00a0 I can tell you from experience – it’s a lot easier to prevent a website intrusion than to ‘fix’ it after the fact.\u00a0 These calls have become so common that I’ve rolled out Website Security<\/strong><\/em> features into our Website Care plans.\u00a0 Depending on the plan, we shedule intense scans to detect any anomalies.\u00a0 Our care plans include measures to repel attacks as well as rapidly mitigate any breaches.<\/p>\n