The best way to protect your website is to use secure programming. Code that is founded in security can protect your web applications, web database, and the web server in general. The vast majority of security exploits arise from inadequate programming features and a lack of protective qualities. Functionality as simple as a single newsletter subscription email address field is sufficient to gain complete access and control of your web applications, databases and the entire web server.

Security Programming includes programming a secure database. Databases provide tremendous flexibility and content to dynamic PHP websites. For many websites, the content stored in their databases is proprietary, confidential, restricted, financial information requiring PCI Compliance, and other content types that are simply not for prying eyes. Building a secure database is more than making the database tough to find or hard to read.

Is your web hosting or database hosting server secure? Do you know how to evaluate your server security? Even most programmers don’t know how to check, or even know what to look for. Well, most programmers aren’t security programmers and for sake of discussion we’ll exclude them from this topic. Secure servers are the responsibility of network administrators and advanced security programmers like us.