It happens.  Sites get hacked into every day, and not just big company’s sites. Small companies are deemed safer targets by hackers, because small companies simply don't have the security resources that large organizations have.

If your customers' personal information or credit card numbers are stolen from your website, you not only lose the trust of your customers - you could be liable for damages!

Sometimes the motive is money, but not always. All it takes is for some teenager to feel challenged, or perhaps hired by a competitor.  A few subtle changes can knock you out of the search engine lists and you may not even discover the problem for months.  A hacker might try to steal your customer information, maybe even credit card numbers.  So what can you do to get website security on a level with big corporations?

The more people you’ve got working on your website’s security, the better.  There is no way that I or any other single web developer can offer the amount of security that an entire team of developers – like the Joomla Security Team can offer.

An estimated thirty million Joomla websites are in use for governments, businesses large and small, non-profits and others where security is a big issue.  These sites make for a real-world testing ground for security issues.  Over the years, it has been Joomla developers who’ve discovered security flaws, and quickly patched them instead of hackers discovering the flaws. 

Why is this?  It is because Joomla is worked on by thousands of developers and is “open source”, meaning that the whole world can study its programming code. 

Put it this way, let’s say you have a certain number of "super hackers" – maybe a few thousand.  On the other side, you have your developer team.  In in the case of Microsoft, for instance, it may be from four to twenty developers.  In Joomla’s case, when you count all the developers who collaborate and study the code, it is probably close to ten thousand.

OK, so let’s look at the numbers –

The Joomla development team is also capable of reacting much more swiftly than the average large corporation when it comes to fixing security issues. Updates and security patches to your Joomla content management system are always FREE!

On the Internet, security is always a concern. For that reason, you are encouraged to subscribe to the Joomla! Security Announcements for the latest information on new Joomla! releases, emailed to you automatically.

If you're concerned about website security - and you should be - it's easy to see why Joomla is the right choice for any business that doesn't want to have to fund an entire department to work on security issues.