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Web application security measures

Web application security measures : Firewalls A firewall is a piece of software (or hardware) that controls what services are exposed to the network. This means blocking or restricting access to every port except for those that should be publicly available. On a typical server, a number services may be running by default. These can be categorized into the following groups: Public services that can be accesses by anyone on the internet, often anonymously. A good example of this is a web server that might allow access to your site. Private services that should only be accessed by a select group of authorized accounts or from certain locations. An example of this may be a database control panel. Internal services that should be accessible only from within the server itself, without exposing the service to the outside world. For example, this may be a database that only accepts local connections. Firewalls can ensure that access to your software is restricted accord

Best tools to understanding about your website traffic without writing complex code - Open Source | Business Intelligence

10 tools that you can use to gain more understanding about your website traffic  Clusters correspond well to the roles each data scientist plays in general:   Cluster 1 -- Business Intelligence Cluster 2 -- Hadoop and Data Engineering Cluster 3 -- Machine Learning and Data Analytics Cluster 4 -- Data Visualization   1. Google Analytics. Google Analytics  is one of the best free tools that any website owner can use to track and analyze data about Web traffic. You get to see what keywords are bringing the most visitors to your pages and what aspects of your designs are turning them off. This tool will generate a report for your website that includes information about visitors, traffic sources, goals, content and e-commerce. The downside of Google Analytics is that it can take time to update. (The real-time version is still in beta testing.) There are other tools that offer real-time updates of your data now. 2. Spring Metrics. Spring Metrics  has taken the analytics to