Establish a Secure Real Estate Website

This post comes to us from BrokerageU:

Ever wonder what makes a website vulnerable? Each and every day there are malicious parties who try to hack in or take down someone else's live site. Just this week, there were large scale attacks on WordPress. This could wreck the SEO you worked so hard to build, corrupt your data, destroy your back up files, and even go so far as to load malware on your visitor's computers.

If you think that there might be any weak areas in your website now, then you'll want to keep reading. There are some practical and easy steps that you can take today to make sure your content and your client's info stays as safe as possible.

Looking for more information on the current state of your security? Contact your website host; they should be happy to discuss what steps they're continuously taking to sustain a protected environment for your site to thrive.

First, ask your current hosting company the following questions:

• How frequently are security measures updated?
• How often do they run scans?
• How perform server maintenance to increase security?

Once you find out what measures are already in place, you'll have a much clearer grasp on what to spend your time on next. We'll highlight some important things to take note of below.