Why has my site been blacklisted by Google?

 What does Blacklisting mean?

 
Blacklisting of the website takes place when a website has been removed from their index by the search engine. Generally, there are individuals who are responsible for maintaining websites, called Webmasters and they pay attention to all such banned websites. It is necessary to pay attention because a website loses about 95 percent of its traffic if blacklisted. It also has a huge impact on profit generation and sales of the enterprises. Are you worried about your website too? ESDS has a solution for you. You can check your domain’s blacklisting status with ESDS’ VTMScan. ESDS VTMScan will check for blacklisting status as well as for all the malware intrusions.

When do domains get blacklisted?

Websites get banned when certain irregularities are found on the website and they are generally assumed to be a Malware. A website can be hacked in various forms such as trojans, phishing attacks, email spamming and even scraping information. A lot of times even the domain owners are not attentive about their own sites being hacked. Search engines such as Google, Bing, etc generally do not show harmful results. This is done in order to retain customers at the same time it is made sure that user’s computers are kept away from all the harm.

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Cloud Compliances – The Modern-Day Success Mantra

After going through the topic, one might wonder how Cloud-based compliances have a role to play in the success of an organization. Read the upcoming section to understand why Cloud compliances are considered the modern-day success mantra for any organization.

Ensuring Cloud compliances has been a significant challenge for many organizations. The inevitable demand for Cloud compliances rises as soon as a user migrates his critical data and applications to cloud hosting. Earlier, the Cloud Service Providers or CSPs didn’t throw weight on the data security or whether they aligned to industry compliances and regulations. Their main focus centered around offering data storage in the Cloud to the end-users. With the increasing demand for strict data laws across nations, Cloud Service Providers are now offering their Cloud hosting services in line with the latest industry compliances.

Determining Success with Cloud Compliances

1. Well-Defined Understanding of Regulations and Guidelines

A critical aspect of Cloud Computing involves various industry standards and regulations that everyone must adhere to. These regulations can be local, national, or even globally accepted ones. The local and national compliances may be true for a particular nation or group of nations, but the global ones need to be mandatorily followed. With advancements in technologies, CSPs are dealing with Cloud Compliances through expert teams. Such dedicated compliance teams ensure all compliance requirements of a business are met.

From the user’s perspective, he must be well aware of compliance policies and procedures. User’s CSP needs to be consistently compliant with the latest standards and must have all the supporting documents for these compliances and standards.

2. Restricting Access Controls

The absence of improper authentication and privileged access often become the primary source of data breaches taking place within an organization. MFA or Multi-Factor Authentication strategies are often apprehended as complicated and time-consuming. Advanced security mechanisms like MFA can be highly beneficial in avoiding all major security threats. Single Sign-On or SSO is a convenient option to consider but can also elevate hacking chances if the user credentials are compromised or hacked.

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Secure Your Web Applications Against Online Threats with eNlight WAF

 Cyber-attackers are constantly targeting user web applications and websites with the ill intent to gain access to sensitive business information. These increasing numbers of data breaches have kept the top-management, and other business decision-makers worried. To avoid all such losses, ESDS has developed eNlight WAF, a specially-engineered & first of a kind Cloud-hosted WAF. This Cloud-hosted WAF filters out all the incoming and outgoing web traffic by restricting malicious threats like SQL Injections, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Attacks.

eNlight WAF allows the users to create their own rules for blocking all web attacks with minimal latency towards page response. eNlight WAF ensures source IP reputation and blocks all blacklisted, spammer and TOR networks. It is a highly cost-effective secure solution that allows users to pay only for utilized resources like CPU, Bandwidth and RAM.

Salient Features of eNlight WAF

·         Virtual Patching

ESDS eNlight WAF generates a set of rules for rectifying the identified vulnerabilities from an uploaded vulnerability scanner report

·         Backed by Machine Learning

Using mathematical algorithms, eNlight WAF uses an approach for learning and modeling typical traffic along with detection of any abnormal requests

·         Anomaly Detection

Anomaly detection is integrated with eNlight WAF that allows the system administrators to identify any form of risky behavior and accordingly develop effective filtering policies

·         Load Distribution

Using the HA-Proxy, eNlight WAF distributes all of the incoming traffic across several nodes present in the cluster, which is then dispatched to a farm of web servers

·         Secure Applications and Websites

Users can add multiple applications and websites using customized configurations. A simple and easy-to-understand dashboard helps in easy setup and management of web assets with ease

Value-Added Benefits of eNlight WAF

·         Auto-Scalable WAF Solution- eNlight Cloud, the world’s first dual-patented Cloud hosting platform, supports eNlight WAF, which allows scalability of applications as per demand

·         Auto Protection- Auto protection protects user’s websites against OWASP Top-10 Vulnerabilities and other online threats. The user needs to add his IP or subnet for granting/denying access to any website

·         Cost-Effective Solution- With eNlight WAF, there is no need for any additional hardware or applications as it works on a pay-per-use model

·         Enhanced Protection Against Browser Hacking- With eNlight WAF, users can terminate their SSL connection without incurring much overheads or latency

Leverage eNlight WAF today and secure your critical data hosted on websites and web applications against all online threats and vulnerabilities.

eNlight Web VPN

 

A Secure Remote Access to Digital Transformation

Amidst COVID-19, technological innovations have not only transformed the way business is done but have enhanced hacking techniques. The threat of security breaches with an extended perimeter of workplaces is a reality everyone is facing. To ensure a secure remote working environment, ESDS offers a clientless SSL VPN solution called eNlightWebVPN.

What is eNlight Web VPN?

ESDS eNlightWebVPN is the first client-less SSL VPN solution with built-in WAF (Web Application Firewall) delivering multi-factor authentication securing your remote working environment from OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities. Eliminating the need to deploy hardware and software in every device, ESDS eNlightWebVPN becomes the cost-effective solution. Deploy this software-defined solutionon public Cloud, on-premise, or hybrid cloud ensuring private secure access to your desktop.

Problems in the Existing System?

 

·         Client Based: Installation of VPN client on every device

·         User Frustration: Service delivery delay due to application slowness and performance issues

·         Security and Scalability: Application security on the internet a major concern for businesses with high scalability and availability

·         High Pricing: Client-based and clientless VPN solutions are costly

·         User Analytics:  Unable to get a complete real-time overview of all remote access users 

What Do We Offer?

·         Clientless: No need to install any VPN client

·         High Security: Multi-factor authentication Built-in WAF preventing OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities

·         Cost-Effective: Reduced VPN cost as hardware or software are not deployed on every device

Why Should You Choose eNlight Web VPN?

 

·         Supports Windows, MAC, Linux, and mobile OS

·         Supports HTML5 applications, Websocket, RDP, FTP protocols, CGI applications

·         Integrate with multiple identity providers simultaneously (AD, LDAP, Radius, etc.)

·         Multifactor authentication with SMS and Email OTP

·         Time-based OTP with Google and Microsoft Authenticator

·         WAF protects from OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities

·         Granular Application Access Control

 URL:

https://www.esds.co.in/enlight-webvpn

 

Tips to safeguard your Joomla website

Let’s first understand what Joomla is and how does it help to build a website?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is an open source system that can manage content efficiently. Joomla is also used for development of websites and applications that are supported on line. Technically, Joomla consists of two templates, a front-end template which is made user friendly and a back-end template which is mostly used by the administrators of the website. Joomla is created using PHP (designing the front end), Object Oriented Programming language (for coding), MySQL (for storing data).

What is Content Management System (CMS)?

It is a software that is capable of keeping track of all the data. Data can be in various forms such as text, images, document, etc. This data is available on the site. CMS also helps in editing, altering and publishing the content of website.

Generally, Joomla is used for developing websites of different kinds and sizes. Joomla can be used for development of following:

• Sites and portals for Corporates
• Start-ups and small-sized business websites
• Magazines, newspapers, and publications that have an online presence
• E-commerce sites and online booking & reservations
• Websites for government, NGO’s and organizations

Open source softwares are free to use, distribute and modify. It has a lower cost compared to the cost of its proprietary counterparts. But at the same time, it is subjected to getting attacked. Taking precautions before your website gets hacked and working on how to improvise its Security is extremely necessary.

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Technological Advancements to boom the Backup and Disaster Recovery Software Market by 2025

 

The dawn of the internet has revolutionised the way data stored and consumed. The rise of the digital era has led to the acceptance of cloud computing over the traditional means of data storage. But, the raised concern with cloud computing is data privacy and security. Consider, if you lose your irreplaceable data. Won’t you be embarrassed to explain this failure to your clients? And how do you think your clients would react? They might be a little frustrated. Also, they may switch to some other company for business. So, data loss and data recovery failure may adversely affect your relations with your clients.

In order to have continuous access to your data even after the disaster takes place, backup and disaster recovery software is the appropriate solution. Cloud disaster recovery is a security measure that involves maintaining copies of electronic records in a cloud computing environment. Cloud disaster recovery aims to enable an enterprise to recover the lost data or implement failover in case of human errors or natural calamity.

The idea of backup was established with the birth of data itself. Initially, floppy disks, backup CDs and DVDs were the means of technology for data backup. Later, USBs came into existence and now dedicated backup appliances, and remote backup repositories are used. The backup market has seen explosive growth due to technological innovations. The last few years have seen some exciting changes in the world of disaster recovery. A survey from 2018 predicts global data backup and recovery market is expected to reach $18.21 billion by 2025.

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Why you should choose Cloud Managed Services

Adoption of Cloud Computing has exceeded expectations of those who were forecasting large-scale acceptance of the technology by businesses of every sector. Organizations have successfully made the move on Cloud by investing considerable amount of their IT budget, but they are still making one huge investment that can be smartly eliminated. As these organizations use their Cloud services, they are heavily dependent on their in-house IT team to manage and continuously monitor their systems. Clearly, when one has their own in-house team, it is assumed they are spending on personnel who are helping them maintain their Cloud environment. This area of an organization’s IT environment can be outsourced to professionals that manage various aspects such as maintenance of infrastructure, database management, technology upgradations, etc.

As technology progresses twofold every year, organizations that have adopted Cloud may not be able to keep up with innovations and can face technological roadblocks while achieving business success. There are various managed service providers whose main responsibility is to offer administration services for Cloud, storage, backup, network, etc., which are some of the elements in an IT environment. An organization may be using Cloud services provided by a CSP or their own On-premise infrastructure, but nonetheless, they require experts to manage their IT environment.

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Benefits of Cloud ERP for SMBs

 In today's time, every business organization has deployed an ERP Solution that helps it in aggregating and organizing the data present across various departments in the organization. The traditional ERP software is usually present at the parent organization's infrastructure, which constantly demands updates and servicing.

Challenges with Traditional ERP

Most businesses opt for an ERP system, as it easies their intra and inter-departmental processes. However, despite easing the core processes, a traditional ERP implementation possess multiple challenges to the SMBs in the form of- 

·         The key challenge related to a traditional ERP Is that it becomes difficult for smaller businesses to understand the key processes and how they will benefit by implementing ERP systems.

·         Another challenge with a traditional ERP is the lack of flexibility. In case the installed ERP is not flexible, then businesses are forced to adopt the processes as per the ERP to make it functional.

·         A traditional ERP software often demands regular maintenance, thereby bringing in associated maintenance costs. The maintenance costs in ERP after it is implemented are much higher. Since the ERP systems are not deployed with any other businesses, smaller businesses are forced to pay the entire cost of the ERP software.

Understanding Cloud ERP

As the name suggests, a Cloud ERP is based on Cloud hosting, similar to SaaS. Unlike the traditional ERPs, a Cloud-based ERP is dependent on Cloud for assisting companies that share their information across different departments. Cloud ERP is a shared database supporting various functions being implemented across business units. A Cloud-based ERP allows the business employees across departments to access the same information to match their individual/department requirements.

Benefits of Cloud ERP

Various Cloud ERP vendors offer innovative and sophisticated alternates compared to on-premise ERP implementations in today's scenario. There are numerous benefits that SMBs get when they opt for a Cloud-based ERP solution. These benefits can prove highly beneficial to SMBs, as they don't have enough resources to implement an on-premise ERP solution.

The following are benefits that SMBs get with a Cloud-based ERP system-

·         When compared to an on-premise solution, a Cloud-based ERP has a relatively lower cost. The key reason is that hardware and other associated costs are shared amongst other businesses using the ERP solution. The distributed costs of hardware and other related accessories make it an affordable option. Additionally, businesses need not be concerned about the security-related concerns in a Cloud ERP solution. In a Cloud ERP, the IT-associated costs are also shared amongst others present with the same ERP vendor. For SMBs, lowered costs can be a great option as it helps them overcome any unwanted additional cost of under-utilized staff.

·         Experts often believe that the estimated time taken to implement a Cloud ERP solution is near 1/4^th the time taken to setup a traditional, on-premise ERP. Cloud ERP can be easily setup as Cloud ERP already has predefined modules that can be easily integrated. An SMB just needs to pay the ERP provider a subscription amount to start using the services. A Cloud ERP faces minimal downtime during the software upgrade process. The ERP vendors entirely manage Cloud ERPs. Software setups have eliminated any dependency from businesses, and there are no disruptions to business operations.

·         For businesses, it becomes challenging to have on-premise ERP demands continuous maintenance to keep it running and functioning with the highest degree of efficiency. On the contrary, a Cloud-based ERP has a bare minimum requirement and has an active, steady Internet connection. An active Internet connection helps SMB get maximum proficiency and no hindrance or interruption in their core working areas.

·         Any ERP system is responsible for storing confidential data. When an SMB opts for a Cloud-based ERP solution, it offers multiple encryption layers that enhance security levels of critical data, ensuring maximum security of stored data.

·         Cloud-based ERPs allow SMBs to streamline their critical business processes. Employees are often given role-based access to data. With Cloud ERP, it becomes possible not to be physically present at the ERP location, and business processes are updated concurrently, even from remotest locations.

·         ERP solutions can be used for integrating all the necessary information from multiple departments, which becomes an effective method for enhancing core business operations. The Internet contains essential information regarding the business, thus making it easier to have a Cloud ERP connection. Cloud ERP connections allow the employee to fetch and update the required data on the go. Cloud ERP solution can help employees who work from remote locations for finding and sharing the desired information.

Conclusion:

Recent market trend depicts that SMBs rely heavily on Cloud Computing for storing their critical data. When integrated with Cloud, ERP systems will offer multiple alluring benefits to business organizations that help them stay ahead in their industries.