During the annual Umbraco Festival CodeGarden in Odense (Denmark) our colleague Jeffrey gave a presentation about security & Umbraco. In this presentation he demonstrates how he would hack a fictional Umbraco website, and how you can protect your website against these methods. The slides also show 9 concrete tips that are easily and directly applicable to your Umbraco website. You can download the presentation below to read at your leisure.
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This week CodeGarden 2018 took place: the international conference about the open source CMS Umbraco. Our colleagues Tim, Dennis, Jeffrey, Leon and Daniel travelled to beautiful Odense to learn, listen and share. And that's not all, because we've been nominated four times, and we won 2 Umbraco awards!
Read moreUsually, Google is our bestest friend on the web. Several weeks ago however, we ran into something odd. Our monitoring alerted us to the fact that for the past several days the CPU use of one of our sites was steadily increasing. On a daily basis we had one million crawled pages, and more than 25 Gb of data downloaded. And that was per day, from one bot! A quick analysis of our logfiles revealed the cause of this to be traffic generated by a Googlebot (or someone impersonating one).
Read moreSecurity is a hot issue currently and with the coming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) this topic will only become more and more important. The last couple of years I've been specializing in security and tried to combine this with my love for Umbraco. After dozens of security audits (executed by international organizations on our own Umbraco installations) and my own visions regarding security, I would like to use this blog to pass along some tips and tricks that are easy to apply to your own installations.
Read moreGDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), the new European regulation regarding privacy - and data protection, comes into affect on May 25th , 2018. The regulation is about how personal data of European Union-citizens should be handled. But it’s also as important outside the EU, because if your website is targeting EU-citizens you’ll have to apply to this regulation too. Jeffrey wrote an article on what could/should be changed in Umbraco to accommodate this. Five questions will be discussed:
At the Grand Prix Content Marketing 2017 VERDER* has been richly rewarded with 4 nominations. On November 16th we went home with no less than 2 distinctions and a bronze award!
In the following categories, VERDER*, the personalization website commissioned by vFAS, was rewarded with: a nomination for Best Effectiveness; B-to-C a bronze award; an award for Best data driven implementation; and for Best Platform / content hub.
The jury said among other things about the platform: "Social goal, charming and applause worthy, especially that you as an industry organization tell the stories without putting emphasis on commerce. "Personalized content like VERDER* is the dream of every content marketer. The technology behind the platform is impressive and the results speak for themselves."
At Perplex we’ve been working on accessibility for years. We believe that everyone should be able to use any site in whatever way they wish. We have received the official drempelvrij.nl certificate (the Dutch office responsible for testing accessible websites) for several of our sites and want to continue doing our best to contribute to a better web for everyone. Last spring, we decided to test Umbraco against the WCAG and ATAG guidelines by an official Dutch testing organization. An accessible website is nice and all, but doesn’t the backend need to be just as accessible?
Read moreWhen an user visits your website, you want to help him as much as possible by offering the most relevant content. To do this, you can use the data the user already supplied and change, or personalize, your content accordingly. The principle of 'personalization', originally regarded as a simple marketing buzzword, has been applied by Perplex with stunning results.
During CodeGarden 2017 one of our sites featuring personalization was nominated in the category 'Best Technical Solution'. The goal of this blog is to show our thoughts about this principle as well as to try and inspire you to put your back in it and start personalizing. We will kick things off with a short look at some important concepts followed by, based on a concrete roadmap, implementing personalization.
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