Tag Archives: web security

Encryption
13 Apr 2020

End-to-End Encryption – Why it is so Important

End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) ensures the confidentiality and privacy of the parties to a particular communication. Irrespective of the medium chosen, be it text, voice, or video, this technology prevents third-parties from accessing any interaction while it is in transit or at rest. As the vast majority of today's intercommunication occurs across the Internet, encrypting your information is vital. Users typically leverage a variety of third-party apps and services to interact with their friends, family, and colleagues. Due to the sensitive nature of most interpersonal communications, it is [...]
CDN Security
28 Oct 2019

How to Secure and Protect Your Website

Securing and protecting your website is vital for every business, individual, or service that has an online presence. Even though you may believe your site holds nothing of value, every webserver is a prime target for hackers. Using automated scripts, criminals and syndicates scour the Internet looking for vulnerable websites they can compromise. Once they have managed to breach your platform’s security, they then leverage your service to host illegal sites, send spam, and distribute malware to unsuspecting victims. Implementing security measures to protect your website requires [...]
CDN Gaming
09 Jul 2019

Scaling and Securing a Gaming Service with a CDN

Online gaming is a significant Internet market, and for many organizations around the globe, a revenue-generating business that continues to grow exponentially. With over 2.5 billion video gamers around the world, this industry is expected to be worth over 90 billion U.S. dollars by 2020. For game developers having infrastructure that can host their service while providing gamers with a superior experience is vital to their success. As their player base is effectively their revenue engine, gaming service providers need to ensure their infrastructure can scale and [...]
CDN Security
04 Feb 2019

The Top Threats in Cloud Computing

Threats that could compromise the security of your cloud environment consist of both universal and cloud-specific risks. If you examine the Cloud Security Alliance report on the 12 biggest threats to cloud computing, it includes elements such as system vulnerabilities and malicious insiders. Security issues such as these two examples have been prevalent in non-cloud computing environments for decades. Although some stated cloud security issues may be universal, you still need to follow industry best practice to ensure your environment is secure. Even though the Top 12 [...]
CDN security
28 Jan 2019

Securing Your Origin Server

Securing your origin server in today’s digitally-driven online world is vital. With cybersecurity threats growing in both number and sophistication, attackers can compromise an unprotected server in minutes leaving you and your visitors at risk. In an ever-evolving threat landscape, it is crucial that you take proactive steps to ensure your site is safe. Securing your origin server from possible compromise requires you to perform several administrative functions that protect your website, server, and data. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) improve the performance and security of your website. [...]
CDN security
12 Jul 2018

TLS 1.0 – What is it, and why are we deprecating it?

At CDNsun, providing an efficient, reliable and cost-effective service is our primary purpose. Our platform delivers not only superior performance but also provides enterprise-grade security, assuring you and protecting your solutions from online threats. As we continuously strive to provide you with the fastest and most secure CDN possible, we will be deprecating TLS 1.0 on July 19, 2018, to reinforce the security of our platform. What is TLS 1.0? To understand why we need to deprecate TLS 1.0, we first [...]