\nOne of the first things to understand is that even the simplest of websites are far more complicated than the days of HTML files pecked out on a keyboard. Most websites today employ what\u2019s called a content management system and a database. The database stores all of website\u2019s content and information, and the content management system is software that runs on the Web server to display the front end of the site to users and let the site\u2019s owners create and manage content on the back end.<\/p>\n
The rise of freely available content management systems such as WordPress, Joomla and Drupal has revolutionized Web development. Since they\u2019re free, some small-business owners try their hand at creating a site on their own, and others tap the vast number of developers who use the systems as a basis and take advantage of the millions of plug-in tools published for them.<\/p>\n
Experts think that as many as half to three quarters of the sites on the Internet are running WordPress. That in itself is a problem: Hackers always target the most broadly used systems to get the best bang for their evil buck.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the big dangers out there is using a pre-built CMS platform. They can be dangerous in that they have a lot of insecure plug-ins that were written by people that aren\u2019t security minded,\u201d said Forrest Hatfield, co-founder of ITECH Solutions in San Luis Obispo. \u201cYou have to be very careful about what you install.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
So when considering your next website development tool, consider the safety of the tools you are using, and the policies you have in place for making sure your webite data is protected\u00a0<\/p>\n
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WordPress and Security have become a BIG issue lately Michael Kramer, founder of Santa Barbara-based Ameravant Web Design. Web developers say a proprietary content management system, such as Ameravant’s SiteNinja, can be a more secure option than an open-source option like WordPress. Somewhere between 50-70% of a small business websites are using the free Content […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ameravant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ameravant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ameravant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ameravant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ameravant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ameravant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ameravant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ameravant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ameravant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}