Preston and District branch: Advice from our members

Challenges and solutions in IT

We hope the results of our survey are useful to other IT professionals. If you come along to one of our events, you can get further advice on these solutions.

Advice by A Thompson at AGT Systems Ltd

Challenge - 1000s of hacking attempts each day on our websites and servers.

Solution - For websites: use complex passwords and use a WAF (web application firewall, like Cloudflare.com) to block hackers. For servers: use IP address restrictions on admin ports like 3389 (RDP; remote desktop access), close all used ports and set the file access (CHMOD) to 'read-only).