Increase Security on Your Programs

Here's 5 Ways to Increase Security to Your Programs

Option 1: Password protect the administrative folder. Sure, all of my programs have a username password protection feature, but if you want double password protection, you can password the admin folder and it will protect all file in it, including the database file. There are several ways of password protecting a directory. If you are hosting on a webserver, then they should have provided you with a way to do so. You may want to contact your administrator if you are unsure. If you are hosting your site yourself, open your IIS control panel and right click the directory you wish to password protect and change it's properties.

Option 2. Password protect the database file. If password protecting the entire admin folder is too much of a hassle logging in twice, then just password protect the database. There are several ways of password protecting a file. If you are hosting on a webserver, then they should have provided you with a way to do so. You may want to contact your administrator if you are unsure. If you are hosting your site yourself, open your IIS control panel and right click the file you wish to password protect and change it's properties.

Option 3. Set a username and password for the database file. If you use DSN connection to connect to your database, you can set the username and password the server has to use to access the database. If someone happens to find your database and download it, they can't open it unless they have the username and password.

Option 4. Place the database file in a directory that is not accessible via the internet. Then on your connection file in your program that connects to the database, just set the virtual directory to the database. This is by the far the best method. Other users don't even have the option to find and download your database.

Option 5. Rename the database, if you are lazy. If you have your directories blocked from browsing then it can be practically impossible for a user to figure out the file name of your database unless you make it something really simple. Quick Fix!