What is Web Security?
The different types of security solutions that help to protect your website users from any kind of cyber attacks, malwares, phishing, data loss etc., is known as Web Security. Having a proper web security system on your website reduces the security risk to your organisation even if the user accesses any malicious file accidentally.
Purpose of having a web security on your website?
Remember, now there are cyber thieves too and we have to protect our’s as well as our customers’ information from these cyber thieves. And in order to do so, the website security is the first step of defence against all the cyber threats.
At present time, there are many advanced threats which tend to fool the untrained eye and can create haphazard situation for the website owners as well as the users.
Why should companies install the Web Security?
Following are some of the points which will help you understand about, why you must have a we security installed on your website:
You can save a lot of sensitive information/data from getting stolen or hacked.
By having a web security, you can protect the private information of your customers, your company and your employees too.
Web security also allows your users to have a better user experience bby helping them to stay safe and productive.
See that your website is completely secured, your customers feel safe in disclosing any personal information and you also get to maintain your customer loyalty.
What are the threats that you need to be aware of?
You need to be aware from all the malicious or spam emails, spam websites, encrypted threats, website hijackers etc., and if you want to be free from all this, then you must have a web security protection installed on your website. Let us now have a look at some of the most common threats that your website comes across:
General Malware: There are a lot of malwares that can lead to different types of data leakages, errors, unauthorised accesses, system crashing, spying etc.
Phishing: This malicious activity is often carried out through malicious websites, emails, text messages. These messages often tend to trick the users by divulging them into any kind of login or downloading activity.
Ransomware: These types of attacks will encrypt your data and then ask you for the ransom payment in order to provide you details back.
SQL injections: In these types of attacks the attacker exploits the vulnerability of the input system of the database server.
To fight with these threats, there comes the role of web security. A good quality web security uses multiple technologies to stop malware, phishing and all other threats.
Working process of the Web Security
Web securities work as the channel between your system’s internet and the environmental end points of your system. From the middle position, they look for the traffic and other requests arriving from the other end. It makes sure that the information travelling in both the directions is checked properly before accepting the request from both the ends.
A single technology can not do all the work described above, therefore a complete stack of the appliances is used to deliver the platform of services.
In today’s time of competition, you can find many web security solutions and some are more comprehensive than others.
Let us know what all in included in the full stack of the Web Security System:
SWG (abbreviated as Secure Web Gateway) - It providence the protection from threats and also enforces the policy for the users to access the internet in order to prevent the threats and also to block the unwanted traffic.
Firewall or IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) - This system provides the complete security to the network and all the applications as well. This also helps to handle the demand and encryption by making them a more practical option.
URL filtering - It blocks and prevents all the inappropriate access from the web borne malware.
Sandboxing - This technology scans the software in the complete isolated environment to prevent any harm or risk of infection to the system or other applications.
Browser Isolation - It loads the applications and other webpages in a remote browser to send the user pixels, copying, pasting, printing of data or documents and preventing any downloading.
DNS Control - It allows your system to analyse and timely protect the DNS abuses by defining the rules to control requests and responses related to the traffic of DNS.
Installing antivirus - It detects and neutralises all the threats to the system. There are many other antiviruses available too which protect against threats of URLs, DDoS etc.
Decryption of TLS/SSL - It breaks the open in bound and the out bound encrypted traffic to inspect its contents, and then it also re-encrypts it to continue to its destination.