How to improve security for websites?

Web security is one of the vital things to consider for web applications. Almost everything is becoming digital by using web applications.

It is a big concern to consider the security measures of a web application. Hackers are regularly running automated scripts to exploit known website security issues.

When writing a web application we should consider the following security concerns:

• Try to keep the tools and technology up-to-date
• Check for SQL injection seriously
• Prevent against XSS attacks
• Validate data on both client and server end
• Force to have a strong password
• Avoid file upload
• Use https from day one
• Choose a good hosting provider
• Keep regular backups
• Have security tools in place