Security

Now more than ever, there is an added emphasis on security. At MostlyWeb, we have always taken security seriously, thanks in part to our experience with very large Web sites (more than 2 million pages). With large sites, you are exposed to that many more people who may be motivated to hack into your site or try and create errors on the server. By creating a sound system architecture and implementing safe coding practices, we have managed to maintain the integrity of the site and ward off hack attacks.

One of our other clients is in the business of providing it's users with a way to automatically log into password protected sites. So you log into their site once and from there you can then automatically log into all your protected sites such as your online banking account, stock trading, frequent flier, and so on. You can imaging that there is a tremendous emphasis on security as this site stores people's log-on credentials to their personal accounts.

The insurance company for this client performed frequent security audits trying to hack into the site or otherwise gain access to sensitive data. MostlyWeb has successfully fended off all of their attempts to hack into the system. We did so by doing the obvious like keeping up with security patches, using a firewall, and so on but we had to do more than that. We also created a network within the network for the database and application servers, encrypt all the data in the database (to make sure a hacker can't read the data even if he/she managed to get to the database), use secure Web connections, and so on. Several years of maintaining this sensitive site as well as continually working on very large sites means that MostlyWeb has become an expert in the security arena.

While security is critical for some of our clients, others have less stringent requirements. It all depends on what it is you are trying to do and how sensitive the data is you are storing. But whatever your requirements may be, rest assured that we will never do anything that would enable even a competent hacker to easily gain access to your information.