Stealing user data, spamming, breaking and entering are the nefarious elements which seizes your website to do wary activities. You must be thinking how to deteriorate their entrance to our Magento stores? Worry not! Magento already comes with numerous built-in security features. But, there is always more which can be done to make it completely bulletproofed. Lets have a look at what else can be done.
Here are ten proven techniques to block security breaches from entering your Magento Store.
1.Create a custom admin path: An unaltered path makes it easy for hackers to navigate through admin page and use Brute Force Attacks to open up gateways to guess your user name and password.
It is recommended that you constantly change the admin path. But remember when you change it, don’t alter the “ Admin Base URL” settings in the admin segment of the system configuration. In case, you don’t do it, it will crack Magento by averting you from accessing the admin panel. Rather, locate “ 2. Use Two-Factor Authentication: Two-factor authentication extensions guarantees that only trusted devices can access your Magento back-end.
This provides an extra coating of security which demands you to know your unique username, password and security code which is randomly generated. Just after 30 seconds of the entire process on a smartphone app you will be able to purchase from the Magento Connect Marketplace. Thus, strengthening the security of your website.
3. Limit Admin access to only approved IP addresses:
In case the points discussed above were not enough for you (because of PCI compliance requirements), then you can certainly restrict admin access to only the IP addresses you have whitelisted.
This can be done through Apache directive Location Match:
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Impressed by the content. Even these are the basic concepts but still we ignore these points most of the time. It will be helpful for the beginners.