Securing a website is an essential and complicated process, requiring experienced developers. With the added advantages of CMS technologies like Joomla, that allow you to easily maintain your website, come added risks as you run web application software. We don't publicise the methods we use to harden security on the sites we develop, but the measures fall into three broad categories.

Securing a website is an essential and complicated process, requiring experienced developers. With the added advantages of CMS technologies like Joomla, that allow you to easily maintain your website, come added risks as you run web application software. We don't publicise the methods we use to harden security on the sites we develop, but the measures fall into three broad categories.

Secure Development
We follow the development techniques used by the Joomla project, which includes a variety of application security measures. We also design our Joomla sites to allow an easy upgrade path, meaning you can keep your CMS version current without extensive redevelopment.

Secure Web Hosting Services
blacklight only recommend hosting services that maintain current versions of web server, web application and database software. These critical dependencies must be regularly updated with security fixes. Web hosts that do not keep up to date allow security vulnerabilities.

Secure Hosting Practice
We use a variety of specialised techniques to harden security and block common exploit attempts.