3 Simple Tips to Clean a Hacked Website

Hundreds of websites around the world face the predicament of hacking and the struggle to restore the sites back to their original glory is real! The immediate steps to recover a hacked website include doing investigation and research, informing the host, resetting all passwords, scanning, and updating, conducting a detailed website security check, Verifying financial data and accounts, performing a security audit, and ensuring the safety of all the website users. Recovering a website once it is being hacked would be overwhelming! Web application security is essential to protect the user’s data and also maintain the reputation of the website. Exposure to unknown vulnerabilities and data breaches are high in probability thus taking precautious measures to protect web applications is advisable. The following steps may be followed to make the process of cleaning a hacked website easier:

1. Deploy WAF to minimize exploitation

A WAF(Web Application Firewall) is the first level of shielding in web application security. It is positioned in between the web server and the users and filters bad requests and malicious traffic. WAF not only shields the website by soldiering in front but also refreshes the cache ensuring the speed is high at all times. It prevents hacking attempts and alerts the hosts about any malicious traffic. AppTrana provides an intelligent, cohesive, and managed WAF solution with up to date advanced security. When a website is hacked the WAF which is the first shield of the site, tries to fix the issues as it is regularly updated to stay up to date with the attacking trends. Once, the first level of fixing is done the site is then handed over to the developers for fixation. The cleaning up of the hacked website becomes easier with a WAF because of its ability to identify the kind of attack and first aid fixing that it provides thus, speeding up the cleaning process. The recovery of a web application may take up to a few months but with WAF the process is very quick and instant as it involves continuous monitoring.

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