In this article, you will learn about a few safety measures that Cloudways recommends you should take after deploying the SSL Certificate because installing SSL Certificate is not enough to protect your website as intruders can still bypass security layers implemented by you. Therefore, using these suggested methods can enhance your website’s security.

Here are a few security measures that you should take after deploying an SSL Certificate.

As discussed earlier, that intruders can still bypass your security layers even if you have an SSL certificate deployed on your website. or maybe access your website on unsecured HTTP protocol just by typing http:// before your website URL so to avoid this interruption from intruders, you need to redirect your website from HTTP to HTTPS.

Enabling HSTS will limit SSL protocol attacks and cookies hijacking. It will also allow websites to load faster by removing a step in the loading procedure. As you might know that HTTPS is a massive improvement over HTTP, and it is not vulnerable to being hacked. Still, a very common hack exists for those websites that force HTTPS redirection to send visitors from an HTTP to HTTPS version of the website, and it is called SSL Stripping and comes under the category of Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attacks. Read more about this and about the procedure of enabling the HSTS policy here.

These essentials steps will ensure that you are making the most out of security features offered by Cloudways to protect your visitors and make the communication between visitors and your website as secure as possible.

That’s it! We hope this article was helpful. If you need any help, then feel free to search your query on Cloudways Support Center or contact us via chat (Need a Hand > Send us a Message). Alternatively, you can also create a support ticket.