Security should be a top priority for you as a blogger.
A single hack can set a blog back months if not ruin it entirely.
These are the reasons you should keep security as a primary concern:
- Readers won’t trust a blog that is a known location where cyber criminals lurk.
- Readers rightfully demand that any information they give you is kept safe.
- If your blog is taken over by hackers, there is no guarantee you can get it back.
- Thousands of websites are hacked every day, many of them with stronger security than your own, due to human error and basic mistakes.
You might understand if a hacker gained access to your blog through a series of clever and intricate actions, but unfortunately, in most circumstances, a compromised website is the result of an easily avoidable mistake…