Tips to Improve Your cPanel Security

Even if software security may be a vast and complex subject, you have to take some simple steps if you want to enhance your own security. The administration system of the web hosting or the cPanel does offer some options when it comes to security. You can use additional security applications with plugins to improve your security.

You have to change the password when it is necessary. Having a strong password prevents hacking. You can use the password generator tool in the cPanel if you wish to get some suggestions. Define the password so that you can avoid default password configuration.

Use anti-rootkit, anti-virus and firewall protection. You should not think that the viruses or hackers will not get access to the CPanel. You should take time to learn how you can increase the security of the server of your cPanel.

Secure SSH: A Secure Shell offers remote access to the server that runs the cPanel.

When you use the updated version for cPanel, you can benefit since you will get access to the latest bug fixes and enhancements for security. Designers of the cPanel have made it easy to include upgrades to the latest option for its cPanel homepage. You can set up the server so that it may update itself on a daily basis and this is going to be done when you set it up in the update preference in the server configuration.

Use Brute-Force Protection: When you set up this parameter, you make sure that any computer IP address that attempts to get into the server many times without permission is going to be blocked. The IP address is going to be logged in a cPanel database. After some time, the cPanel is going to give access to the IP in question. IP Deny manager also lets the user show the IP address, the range of the IP addresses that have to be blocked and the domain name.

Disable the anonymous FTP: The problem with having an anonymous FTP is that the hacker can upload the content in order to get access to the account.

Secure PHP and Apache: For quick compiling and building of the new version of PHP scripting and Apache server language, the cPanel comes with the EasyApache program. In addition to practicing proper security when you ensure that you have the latest version, it is possible to contain the potential malicious PHP script so that they do not open the files from any other place.