I can see you now. Shaking your head in disbelief that the words SEO and computer security are being used within the same topic. when we think computer security, we see some techies in an office watching for hackers. But for non-security types, you have no idea how they do it.

While you may be unaware, so may be the actual security staff in regards to how these hacks can be detected. IDSs (Intrusion Detection Systems) are a system security people use to detect a hack. It displays abnormal activity and presents it to them so that it can be managed. But ordinary staff know nothing about these things.

Why should they care you ask? Because ordinary staff are an extra pair of eyes. And because ordinary staff can be shown simple methods of detecting strange activity. One way to do that is to use tools that SEO (search engine optimization) experts use regularly. One of those tools being statistics.

An example of a statistics tool is the “who’s online” plugin that we have installed on this blog. It displays the visitor, their ip address, and what pages they are accessing. So let’s say that a hacker is trying to brute force the administration. Their location on the site, as well as their ip address shows up. With a simple mouse click you can track that ip address to it’s origin.

In addition to tracking the person, the staffer can search known ip addresses of attackers and clock them from the website script (or complete domain and/or ip of the website) completely.

While it is important to have a reliable security staff, it is also necessary to ensure all your employees have basic knowledge of security.