Best Security Practices for Your Magento Store

by JONATHAN PAUL Jonathan Paul working at PHPProgrammers, a leading

This article will convey the security practices recommended by experts to implement in your Magento eCommerce store to secure it from hackers.

Magento eCommerce development becomes the best eCommerce development due to its great usability, vast libraries and open-source in nature. So if you are thinking about starting an eCommerce store in 2019, your first choice should be Magento.

In Australia, there are more than 6,000 Magento customers already have built their eCommerce and they are successfully running their eStore. But it has been seen that the customer information collected by even small eCommerce stores is often worth a lot to hackers.

It’s a genuine fact that most of the eCommerce merchants rarely known that Magento offers splendid security practices you ever saw. However, the hackers are always on the search to find a coding weakness in eCommerce stores so that they can hack.

Hackers are normally pushed some viral elements to invade websites to conduct suspicious activities like:

Phishing

Stealing User-data

Spamming.

Even though Magento gets regular updates, there are many best security practices that website administrators can follow to stop others from ruining their efforts.

With the help of experts and professionals, we have checklists some of the crucial security measurements you have to implement on your Magento eCommerce as soon as possible.

Always Use the latest Magento version:

However, most of the eCommerce owners are made to believe that the most recent Magento version is not stable and it can impact on business flow. Though, This isn’t true. The fact is that the developers usually fix previous Magento security issues in the new releases. So, it is a risky decision if you want to stay with your older version. For better results and assistance you have to consult with professionals who are dedicated and working at Magento eCommerce development company.

Two-Factor Authentication (2FA):

If you think a secure Magento password is enough to be safe, then you are wrong. To protect your eCommerce store, you should use two-factor authentication for your Magento site security. Presently Magento 2 platform offers a ‘two-step’ authentication extension which provides a layer of stealth. The best part of this feature is, it only allows a trusted device to enhance your Magento admin login security by using the password and a security code from your smartphone. By using this you don’t have to think about password-related Magento security risk anymore.

A Custom Path for The Admin panel:

To prevent hackers from getting to your Magento admin login page even if they somehow get a hold of your password, you should set a custom path for the admin panel. To change your admin path you have to edit the ‘local.xml’ file in Magento 1 and ‘env.php’ file in Magento 2.

Acquire An Encrypted Connection (SSL/HTTPS):

Making your Magento website compliant with the PCI data security standard and in securing your online transactions you need to use ‘Secure URLs’ which is one of the critical and essential elements for the same.

Secure FTP:

Hackers are commonly used FTP password guessing or interception methods to hack a site. To get rid of this kind of hacking, you must use secure passwords and use SFTP (Secured File Transfer Protocol) that uses a private key file for decryption or authenticating a user.

Eliminate EMail Loopholes:

If you are enjoying the password recovering facility through the pre-configured email address then you are just risking your entire business because of hacking chances. The whole Magento store becomes vulnerable if that email id gets hacked. Always protect your email id with two-factor authentication.

Apart from the above-mentioned tips, you also can use some preventive practices such as :

Use strong password

Disable directory indexing

Always have an active backup plan

Prevent MySQL injection

And always get in touch with the Magento Community.

Conclusion:

Magento has a vast and great community of techies who can deliver support whenever you need it. The Magento community release security reports on various versions of Magento. So you can check those as well. Experts are also recommended cloud Magento hosting if you are ready to work with the cloud hosting service provider. So before diving into Magento eCommerce development, you should ask for assistance from recognised Magento development Company and they will help you to understand all.

Jonathan Paul, Working with PHPProgrammers, a leading Magento eCommerce Development Company in Australia, has proven his capabilities and dedication towards Magento development and delivers stable and secure eCommerce for every kind of business betterment which also drive ROI and generate revenue as expected.