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From shopping online to managing our finances, or just connecting on social, we are completely dependent on websites.
Rather naïvely, we also traded our “trust” for those conveniences. Let me explain how…
We would never buy merchandise in a shady street from the back of a truck.
Yet that’s exactly what we’re doing when we don’t check the security of a website.
We are getting fooled by fake websites that are designed to take our private information and our hard-earned money.
Here’s how you can tell if a website is safe and learn how to protect yourself:
Let’s start at the top of your browser as it holds some clues! The address bar is where you can see the web address. Secure websites have an address that has an “S” at the end of HTTP. The “S” stands for “Secure”. They also have a padlock icon on the browser. So, if you see HTTPS and padlock, the connection is encrypted and secure.
But what about the company behind the website? How do you know it's not a criminal with a secure connection? Well, a new system makes this easy, modern web browsers display color and company names in the address bar to help you recognize that the site is trustworthy.
It works like this, organizations that depend on security can have their websites reviewed and validated by licensed unbiased companies called Certificate Authorities. This ensures the organization and website are trustworthy and using a secure connection. If the site passes the tests, the Certificate Authority issues an EV SSL certificate and only sites with these certificates displays color in the address bar including the company name along with the address.
Just like traffic signals, colors like red and green denote stop and go, respectively. If green, it means the site is safe. If red, then you should not access that site. This review process means criminals can't obtain the certificates that are required to display the colorful information on the address bar. So, when you see a site with green info in the address bar, you can be sure that it's legit.
Now, if you are reading a news or checking the weather, security doesn't matter much. So, don't be concerned if there is no HTTPS, padlock, or green bar. Security matters most when you send sensitive information such as credit card info or passwords.
For additional security, you can also use Comodo's SiteInspector. It’s a free tool that scans malware and monitors blacklisting for websites.
For website owners, you can use cWatch Web to scan and remove malware from your site for free.
With knowledge and these tools, you can be confident that your information is safe and secure.
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Security stack layer 1
Our malware detection scanning, preventive methods and removal enables you to take a proactive approach to protect the business and brand reputation from malware attacks and infections.
Comodo cWatch Web can identify malware, provide the tools and methods to remove it, and help to prevent future malware attacks at the edge before it hits the network, included as a paid member.
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Security stack layer 5
Our exclusive C.S.O.C. is staffed with certified security analysts to monitor, assess and defend websites, applications, databases, data centers, servers, networks, desktops and other endpoints.
C.S.O.C. checks for threats, identifies and analysis then performs the necessary actions to resolve the issue while offloading costs of in-house experts by using stack layer 3 to handle the heavy lifting.
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Security stack layer 3
S.I.E.M. collects logs and events the network traffic and web assets, security devices, operating systems, applications, databases, and reviews the vulnerabilities using artificial intelligence to process.
S.I.E.M. senses and tracks significant threats to links to all online supporting data and context for easier investigation. While anomaly detection to identify changes associated with the network safety.
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Security stack layer 4
W.A.F. by Comodo eliminates application vulnerabilities to protect websites and web applications against advanced attacks including Denial-of-Service (DDoS), SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting.
Combined with malware scanning, vulnerability scanning and automatic virtual patching and hardening engines provides robust security is fully managed for Comodo cWatch Web customers.
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Security stack layer 2
Add a network of globally distributed servers designed to boost the speed for websites and web applications by transferring content to your user based on their proximity to the nearest CDN web server.
CDN serves your users your website content with virtually unlimited capacity. Giving you the freedom to focus less on site maintenance, more on scaling the uptime of your traffic and target audience.
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Security stack layer 6
PCI • DSS ensures that your customers' cardholder info is kept secure from security breaches through a meticulous scan of your network and applications to identify and fix security vulnerabilities.
Establishes and implements a firewall, hardens your environment, disables unnecessary services & configures system parameters to prevent misuse, ensures system audit components are protected.
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