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When it comes to a secure website and passwords it is all in your hands to create a password that a hacker simply cannot crack. However, this will require that you be creative and use everything at your fingertips to create the strongest password possible for a secure web site.

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Tip #1 - Use All Spaces

No matter how many characters are available for your password you should be sure to use every one of them. The more characters available for your password and the more you use makes it that much harder to figure out the combination. Always make use of all characters available for a strong and secure password.

Every company wants to keep tabs on their spending and keep their accounts in check, in order to keep their profits healthy. But there are some areas where is doesn’t pay to skimp on what you need.

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One of these areas is internet security. Hackers can strike at the very heart of your business if you let them, and you can be assured that if they do you will stand to lose far more business (and money) than you would by investing in the services of a company that can stay on top of your security issues for you.

The demands for usernames and passwords when registering or logging in to websites is quickly increasing as more and more businesses turn to the internet. Having many online accounts creates the following temptations that you should not give in to:

• Do not use the same sequence for all your usernames and passwords, as tempting as that may be. If this security-sensitive information were to end up in the wrong hands, it can cost you dearly. It is best to think up a different string of characters for each new web account.
• Do not use a password with all numbers or letters-mix them up.

Perhaps the question should really be, how long could they bring down your business for?

It’s an alarming thought, but in truth a single hacker with the right knowledge could seriously damage your business to the point that you wouldn’t be able to function in any real way for several days, perhaps even longer.

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It’s clear that you have a responsibility to make sure your business is as safe as it possibly can be. In this sense the best stance to take is to assume that yes, a hacker could indeed bring down your whole business. Are you prepared to let that happen?

The most basic component of website security is SSL, Secure Sockets Layer technology. All web pages that transmit and receive credit card and other sensitive information should use SSL for website security.

his form of website security utilizes a system of invisible “encryption” that guarantees website security without any inconvenience to the communicating parties. SSL is an industry standard that provides website security to millions of websites.

Commonly, information is sent across the internet by passing it from one computer (also called “servers”) to another and website security is not a serious issue. However, because every bit of information on the internet travels through so many computers (servers) to reach its destination, website security IS an issue when sensitive information is passed.

Threat analysis is not something to be taken lightly in the fast paced world of computer technology. Computers, from large business networks to the simple household PC, are constantly bombarded by viruses, spam emails and any number of other IT bogeymen. People are willing to go to great lengths to protect their computers, their data and their privacy. One of the latest ways of doing that is Converged Threat Analysis (CTA), which uses messaging and web security in an innovative way to combat any new and growing threats to security.

If you think back to the first time that you were offered a cookie from a web site, you may remember your surprise. You may have wondered what a cookie was and whether or not you should accept it. It was probably even more confusing since some web sites never ask if they can give you a cookie while others require your acceptance of cookies in order for you to get information, read articles or look through their products.

Back before there was Google, the big new search engine out there was AltaVista. In an effort to show off its power, the AltaVista team from Digital decided to crawl and index the entire web, which was a new concept at the time. There were many who didn’t like the idea of a “robot” program accessing every page on their web sites because it would cause more load time to their web servers and increase bandwidth costs for them. To address their growing concerns, in 1996 the Robots Exclusion Standard was created.