Securing websites

Security is an important factor in web development process. Ideally, security should be addressed at the beginning, before you even start planning and designing your projects. Reality though, is more complicated, and in many projects, security issues are considered after the development is done, right before deploying the website to a live environment.

This may be problematic, as dealing with security problems may become expensive in later stages of the process. The first thing you should do, is to determine how secure your website should be and which security protections you will have to implement.

Design phase

Configure Kentico so that it is safe for users and protected against spam bots and malicious users.

Development phase

See what you can do to secure your websites in the code. Utilize our secure coding recommendations and instructions on how to avoid vulnerabilities in code.

Deployment phase

Configure your server and project before deploying it to a live environment.

Security checklists

After each stage, check whether you have addressed every important security issue: