Chapter 6. Security and Disaster Recovery
In this chapter, we will do everything possible to make sure our store is not the victim of a successful attack. Fortunately, the PrestaShop team takes security very seriously and issues updates and fixes as soon as possible after any problems are discovered.
We just have to make sure we do everything we can and also implement the PrestaShop upgrades as soon as they are available. All this is covered next.
It is also vital that we always have a recent copy of our store because one day, it is probably inevitable that our shop will die on us. It might be a hacker or maybe we will accidentally muck it up ourselves. A recent backup to handle this type of event is a minor inconvenience, because without one, it is an expensive catastrophe.
In this chapter, we shall:
Look at ways your shop can be damaged
Add users, profiles, and permissions to increase security
Talk about and optionally implement SSL to protect your customers' private information
Learn how to...
