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Review Summary

Web Security is often viewed as "their" problem. Host's see it as the website owners problem- its up to you to keep your site safe, the website owners see it as the host or the OS, or application providers job, and so on. Much like the childhood tale of the Little Red Hen - everyone is always "too busy" - let someone else deal with it.

One thing I must emphasize, you should not depend solely on any single security device or platform to guard you. Defense in layers is the right way to protect yourself. This starts at the HOST and their perimeter protection with Firewalls, NAT and other assorted systems. Then it moves inward to you and from there you have the responsibility to maintain your website and possibly the Operating System by staying on top of patching. Software doesn't suddenly go bad, it "rots." In other words, secure software today is the vulnerable software tomorrow. Adding SecureLive to your website is a strong inner defense.

As I stated at the beginning of this article you should put your sites security as the TOP and most well funded priority that will easily pay for itself by stopping a loss of revenue.

Let's reason together, say you take credit cards online, and you are hacked. The press finds out, your loss of business is immediate and then of course the potential fines and legal action. Is security still to costly?

SecureLive is a Premium product that offers more value than you are paying for. With the rise in Cyber Crime, and the sophistication of the attacks and the tools, any serious site owner, who depends on their website for revenue should not be without this product guarding their site. It's simple to install and is monitored as part of the SecureLive service. Should an attacker reach a certain threat level, the "host" of the IP is notified allowing them to take action at their end of the wire, to shut down the bad guys.

What I really liked during my conversation with Mr. Brown, was the under the covers look at the technology. He has developed a very robust and powerful system, that has the flexibility to change and grow as the threats to your site will inevitably change and become even more powerful.

Head to www.securelive.net and buy it today and start being part of the solution to e-crime rather than a victim.

ABOUT THE REVIEWER: Tom Canavan is author of Joomla! Web security, available from Amazon and a must read for any website administrator, not just Joomla! sites. He has been in the Computer industry for 24 years, and is most recently the former CIO of a large .dot com based in Texas. He offers a full security service available at joomlarescue.com for diagnostic checks and removal of the bad guys.

Learn more about SecureJoomla and get it today for just $197!

Since we ran our tests with Tom, we have moved to install SecureLive on all of our Joomla websites. Joomlashack now considers it a must have for security on any large production Joomla website.

Joomlashack is always excited to keep on top of the latest Joomla 1.6 news on our blog. Last week big news was announced by the volunteer developers over at the Joomla Project: the next generation of Joomla is expected to be released very soon, or in the words of Development Coordinator Andrew Eddie, "on or about 22 June, 2009."

Eddie blogged last week about some cool new features of Joomla 1.6, and posted some annotated screenshots of the revamped Menu Manager. From what we can gather through the various channels and sources, Joomla 1.6 is expected to have lots of new functionality and many usability improvements.

And what about Joomla 1.5?

Our friend Jen Kramer McKibben reports that the current version of Joomla is expected to be "supported" for three years, which means from its January 2008 release date until early 2011. She blogs:

Normally one might expect that as Joomla! 1.6 is released, Joomla! 1.5 support will become limited. (For example, Joomla! 1.0 support ends on July 22, 2009, and extension support for Joomla! 1.0 has been decreasing for some time.) However, this is not going to be the case.

Joomla 1.5 will remain the “stable”, production environment for Joomla!. The 1.6 branch will be seen as quick-moving and somewhat experimental, as the core development team adds new, badly needed functionalities (better permissions system, multiple categories, and tags among them). As those technologies mature in the 1.6 branch, they might port some of the functionality back to 1.5.

Read her full post over at Lynda.com.

So with all this information flying around about Jooomla 1.6, what is a Joomlahead to do to keep informed? Stay tuned to our blog, of course. But for the direct source and breaking news, Eddie recommends following the Twitter search term #joomla16. One might also keep an eye on the Joomla Community blog as well.

What are your hopes and dreams for Joomla 1.6? Comment below and let us know!