Data integrity is most important today because most web sites today are delivered dynamically from database driven CMS like WordPress, Moodle and other solutions that enable almost anyone to build a web site with little to no previous experience. That is where website protection software and PDF security software comes into play because while a website is open to direct access to the public it is also provides many avenues for exploit to hackers enabling them to extract user information from your database, add unwanted information to your database and add unwanted content to your web pages. 


Website protection software like the ArtistScope Site Protection System (ASPS) not only limits how web pages can be accessed but it also prevents visitors from copying media or extracting page data. ASPS is a server filter that encrypts web pages making them accessible only to the ArtisBrowser which prevents all copy and data extraction, even from browser cache and memory. PDF security software like CopySafe PDF Protection prevents direct access to PDF displayed as embedded objects on web pages and prevents unauthorized access to protected PDF provided as downloads for desktop reading. While CopySafe PDF protected files are on display in the reader the user cannot print, save or copy in any way.

Whether you need the full extent of the protection available is optional, but using site protection software can be most useful in preventing website hacks and data mining. If access is limited to applications that enable a hacker to do little else than view the content, what more can you do to protect your website other than simple common sense strategies like checking upload and write permissions, limiting file types that can be uploaded and sanitize database queries to remove code and characters that could be used to pass commands.

Other site security solutions merely check file status and anti-virus solutions check file content. But they are only useful after the fact, after the hacker has already compromised your web site. So wouldn't it be a better strategy to prevent that from happening in the first place?

For more information on the solutions mentioned above, please visit artistscope.com.