Running a website is none of your business
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Unless your business is flush beyond compare, chances are you do not employ an in-house digital services manager. It’s highly likely you do not even employ a single IT person. So why are you messing with custom website design, company owned webspace, and managing disparate IT properties such as security, storage, e-commerce, and all the rest? One of the best signs of leadership is understanding what you don’t know and partnering or employing those who do. By cobbling together a patchwork of IT products and services that is what leads to your online presence being hijacked.
For hackers, it is shocking the amount of time and effort it takes to scrape a poorly secured site, assume its identity, or simply break in and realign a sites content and security configurations. Conversely, for the individuals and businesses who administer these amateurly developed sites these actions can be devastating. Should your small business's’ site be commandeered, shut down, used as a billboard for obscene material, or hijacked in return for ransom you will find yourself deep in a world of tech ------ you are woefully ill-prepared to deal with.
This is why before you make any more decisions about your web presence it is important understand who is handling your security. For the best cyber security for those on a budget, you should consider partnering with a Saas, or Software-as-a-service provider. Platforms such as Squarespace, Strikingly, Wix, Verst, and a long list of others provide all-in-one content hosting, design, and support to bloggers and small businesses that need a website but know nothing about design or web security.
Priced anywhere from free with providing branding and advertisements to $50 a month with unlimited bandwidth, clean design, e-commerce support, and 24/7 site security and customer support, there’s little reason not to enlist a third-party for site management.
Should your site be hacked and used against you for ransom or simply as a means to malign your reputation, you will find the road back to control and secure is exceptionally hard. Many of these hackers are encrypted to the hilt and few are caught. Site confiscation and blackmail is a real thing and sadly the tired cliche of an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure definition is 100% legitimate here.
If you don’t understand how site encryption and security management works, you have no business running a website. Don’t delude yourself into thinking running a website is easy because it might end up being the downfall of all your hard work.
Patrick Boberg is a central Iowa creative media specialist. For more tech insights, follow him on Twitter @PatBoBomb
Unless your business is flush beyond compare, chances are you do not employ an in-house digital services manager. It’s highly likely you do not even employ a single IT person. So why are you messing with custom website design, company owned webspace, and managing disparate IT properties such as security, storage, e-commerce, and all the rest? One of the best signs of leadership is understanding what you don’t know and partnering or employing those who do. By cobbling together a patchwork of IT products and services that is what leads to your online presence being hijacked.
For hackers, it is shocking the amount of time and effort it takes to scrape a poorly secured site, assume its identity, or simply break in and realign a sites content and security configurations. Conversely, for the individuals and businesses who administer these amateurly developed sites these actions can be devastating. Should your small business's’ site be commandeered, shut down, used as a billboard for obscene material, or hijacked in return for ransom you will find yourself deep in a world of tech ------ you are woefully ill-prepared to deal with.
This is why before you make any more decisions about your web presence it is important understand who is handling your security. For the best cyber security for those on a budget, you should consider partnering with a Saas, or Software-as-a-service provider. Platforms such as Squarespace, Strikingly, Wix, Verst, and a long list of others provide all-in-one content hosting, design, and support to bloggers and small businesses that need a website but know nothing about design or web security.
Priced anywhere from free with providing branding and advertisements to $50 a month with unlimited bandwidth, clean design, e-commerce support, and 24/7 site security and customer support, there’s little reason not to enlist a third-party for site management.
Should your site be hacked and used against you for ransom or simply as a means to malign your reputation, you will find the road back to control and secure is exceptionally hard. Many of these hackers are encrypted to the hilt and few are caught. Site confiscation and blackmail is a real thing and sadly the tired cliche of an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure definition is 100% legitimate here.
If you don’t understand how site encryption and security management works, you have no business running a website. Don’t delude yourself into thinking running a website is easy because it might end up being the downfall of all your hard work.
Patrick Boberg is a central Iowa creative media specialist. For more tech insights, follow him on Twitter @PatBoBomb
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