Magento 2 security topics play a significant role in the success of every online business. Nowadays, this topic has become even more important due to the huge number of various hacker attacks and sensitive data leaks worldwide. It is the duty of every website manager is to make sure that the key security rules are followed and the website is well-protected. The following article describes the Magento 2 security best practices for protecting your website against cyber threats.

When Magento releases new security patches, we often get questions from clients like why they should invest money into having those patches applied to their Magento installation. In this blog post we’ll describe the importance of the patches and emphasize their role in having your Magento website functioning properly.

Recent security patches have covered many security leaks. Some of the changes were added via .htaccess files either in Magento root or in specific directories (e.g. shell directory). These fixes will be applied automatically, if your Magento 1.x installation is running on Apache 2, but it won’t work if you prefer Nginx. In this post we will show you the proper Nginx config which provides the same result with a few additions.

The Magento team releases patches when any vulnerability in the system is found in order to keep Magento secure and reliable. On Feb 2015, Magento has already released one critical security patch (SUPEE-5344), which was aimed to address a remote command execution. It’s been more than two months since the release and still more than 50% of all of the Magento installations worldwide have not been patched and are being open to attacks.