Best Antivirus Protection Software for 2024
Anything to do with a business has to make a return on its investment. This includes business websites. What it takes to make a return on investment depends largely on the cost of the investment. In terms of a website, that would include the initial development, the hosting, the creation of content, and the security. This often raises the question “What kind of security software do I need?”. Here is what you need to know.
What Kind of Protection Software Do I Need?
It would be lovely to say that you could just buy a certain type of security product and know that your website would be safe. Sadly, the internet doesn’t work like that. The question is less “what kind of security software do I need?” and more “what kind of security do I need to keep my website secure”. Part of the answer to this question does involve security software, but there are a lot of additional factors to consider.
The security software you definitely need
You definitely need a website vulnerability scanner. Different products will have different capabilities but all products should have an anti-malware scanner and a web applications firewall. These work in combination to protect your website from common threats such as standard malware and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
You also need a reputable anti-malware product with an integrated firewall for all of your local devices, including your mobile ones. This will help to stop your website being compromised by hackers stealing administer login details from the local devices you use to connect to the back-end of your website.
The security software you probably need
If you're running a business website then you probably have some kind of database of user/customer details. If so, then you need to look into providing it with extra protection. This basically revolves around two main concepts.
Firstly, you need to limit who has access to it at all and, in particular, who has administrator access to it. You also need to monitor what they do with their access. There is security software that can help with this. Smaller SMBs may not be able to justify the expense and could probably manage fine without it, even though it might give them extra convenience. For larger SMBs, however, it can be indispensable.
Secondly, you need to ensure that all sensitive data is stored encrypted, not just in the production database but also in backups and archives.
For completeness, you also need robust database-management policies. This needs to include processes for the database to be backed up and for aged data to be archived or deleted.
The security software you may need
If you have to access the back-end of your website over questionable Internet connections such as public WiFi connections, then you will need a virtual private network. That said, avoiding questionable connections is still much the safer option.
Using standard software in a secure manner
If you're running a business website, the chances are that you're using one of the major open-source content management systems. These have a lot of benefits including, perhaps especially, a wide range of third-party extensions, plus the ability for you to create your own customizations.
It is, however, vital to remember that the fact that these CMSs are open source means that hackers and malware creators know their default settings (or can easily find them out). This means that you absolutely must change the defaults as soon as you possibly can.
You also have to make sure that you update your CMS promptly. Again the notes released with every update tell hackers and malware creators what vulnerabilities they can find in unpatched software.
Last but definitely not least, you need to do thorough research on any third-party add-ons before you decide whether or not to install them. There are some great options available and many are free. There is however also a fair sprinkling of malware and more than a sprinkling of buggy software written by amateur developers.
Securing your accesses
Your user accesses are a key point of vulnerability. The solution to this issue lies partly with software, partly in robust processes and partly in user training.
You can use software to tighten up security checks. For example, most CMSs will allow you to change the default admin login URL. This simple move can make life more difficult for hackers. Likewise, they will generally allow you to implement two-factor authentication, to block users after a certain number of unsuccessful password attempts and to log them out after a certain period of inactivity.
These should all be implemented, but the foundation of secure access management is minimizing the number of people who are granted access and, bluntly, making sure they can be trusted.
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Removal
Security stack layer 1
Malware Detect & Removal
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.
- Unsuspecting websites get infected with malicious code.
- Continuous website monitoring to detect any incidents.
- Identify and remediate the cause to hardening your websites.
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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Response
Security stack layer 5
Cyber Security Operations Center
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.
- 24 / 7 / 365 security monitoring using state-of-the-art tech.
- Engage clients of complex threats to resolve the issue.
- Real-time web traffic monitoring and proactive incident fixes.
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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Intelligence
Security stack layer 3
Security Information • Event Management
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.
- Reduces billions of events into prioritized threats real-time.
- Identifies changes in network behavior with activity baselines.
- Flows data searches in real-time streaming or historical mode.
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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Prevention
Security stack layer 4
Web Application Firewall
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.
- Destroys malicious requests and thwart hack attempts.
- Protection to account registration forms and login pages.
- Malicious bots and brute force attacks are block and patched.
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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Performance
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.
- Proven to increase search engine rankings and site scores.
- 29 worldwide CDN node locations to reach your users.
- Save your bandwidth by leveraging CDN browser caching.
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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Compliance
Security stack layer 6
Payment Card Industry • Data Security Standard
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.
- Simple and automated way to stay compliant with PCI • DSS.
- Pass the requirements for the 12 points PCI • DSS standard.
- Schedule on-demand PCI scans to report quarterly results.
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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