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The internet can be a dangerous place, what with so many hackers and people potentially looking to make a quick profit off bad practices. In such an environment, it becomes increasingly important to make your Drupal site as secure as possible.
Fortunately, Drupal is well-known for being a pretty secure CMS out of the box. However, it is by no means perfect, and, owing to its flexibility and support for various modules, there are a number of modules you can install to make it a lot more secure.
So, in this, post let’s take a look at some of the best security modules that you can download and install on your Drupal site to make it as foolproof as possible.
Login Security
The login page to your site is like the gate to your house. It only makes sense, then, that the first thing to strengthen would be the login process. An excellent module for this purpose is the Login Security Module.
It allows you to set a limited number of login attempts, failing which the account will be automatically blocked. In addition to that, it also allows you to block IP addresses as well as sends you alerts via email if there’s a potential brute force attack on your site.
Captcha Module
Quick question: what’s the easiest and most widely used method of keeping spammers away? It is, of course, captcha. With the captcha module, you can integrate captcha on your Drupal site in a couple of minutes and keep those pesky spammers and bots at bay.
Security Kit
A module that’s going to become your best friend on your journey to make you site foolproof, Security Kit is an all-in-one module for your site that allows your to configure, tweak and set up various options in order to minimize the chances of any attacks on your site.
On top of that, it also gives you helpful directions such as setting up http headers etc. to make your site as resistant to malicious attacks as possible. A module which is very much worth its weight in any secure Drupal site’s arsenal.
Password Policy
Setting up a password policy for your site is a good idea, as it not only keeps bots away, but also helps to ensure that users keep a strong password and not just the ‘password123’ type. A strong password helps prevent breaches on your site, making it a lot more secure in the process.
The password policy module allows you to do just that by giving you options to define a set of constraints which need to be met by the user before their password is accepted. While the Drupal 8 version is currently in the alpha stage, it works perfectly well, so go ahead and enable it on your site.
Session Limit
As the name implies, this module allows you to configure the maximum number of sessions allowed per user. The number of sessions is the number of browsers a user is logged in at. Using this module, you can also configure various other options such as prompting the user to log out of another session before logging into a new one etc.
Conclusion
Using these modules, you can ensure your Drupal site stays a lot more secure. Since these are modules that anyone can grab for their site, there’s really no excuse not to use them. While there are additional techniques which can be implemented on a Drupal site to secure it, they are advanced techniques.
To get started, these modules will do the job nicely. Another thing to note is that with Drupal 8, a lot of security measures have been implemented out-of-the-box, hence it currently sports a smaller amount of additional security modules than Drupal 7.
Are you confused about how to set up security measures for you site? Worried about whether your site isn’t safe enough? Contact us at Agiledrop and let our extensive Drupal experience help you with this!
