Having procedures in place to deal with a website security breach

Unfortunately website hacking and security breaches are happening more and more. Websites need to be programmed in such a way that they are as secure as possible and there should be procedures in place to let everyone involved know what to do should the worse happen.

If you are in charge of running a business that has a website then you should have some sort of plan laid out of what to do should your website come under attack and get hacked.

Firstly you need to ensure that your website is up to date in terms of the software that you use, the servers it is hosted on etc. Your programmer should try to eliminate any possible hacks that can be done through good coding practice.

If you do become victim to a website attack you need to take action immediately. If website has been compromised and when a visitor goes through to the site it is directing traffic somewhere else or collecting sensitive data, you should shut the site down immediately. If content within your site has been tampered then this needs to be removed and you need to find out how they have got in and so you can rectify it and stop it happening again.