Assurance Monitors
Assurance Monitors
RapidSpike’s assurance monitors such as Domain and SSL monitors can be invaluable tools for local councils in ensuring compliance with security best practices.
- Domain Expiry Monitoring: Local councils often maintain various domains for their websites and services. By using Domain Expiry monitors, they can keep track of the validity and expiration dates of these domains. This ensures that they can renew domains on time to prevent any disruptions to their sites.
- SSL Certificate Monitoring: SSL Certificates are crucial for ensuring secure connections between websites and users. Local councils handle sensitive data through their websites, such as citizen information or online payments. SSL Certificate monitors help in tracking the validity and expiration of these certificates, ensuring that secure connections are maintained at all times.
- SSL Cipher and Security Headers: Assurance monitors like SSL Cipher and Security Headers help local councils assess the security posture of their websites. They can ensure that appropriate encryption protocols are in place (SSL Cipher) and that necessary security headers are configured to prevent common web vulnerabilities.
- Safe Browsing and SEO Stats: Safe Browsing monitors can help councils detect if their websites have been flagged for any security issues by search engines or other security services. SEO Stats monitoring provides insights into the performance and visibility of their websites in search engine results.
To configure these monitors for their websites, local councils can follow these steps:
- Navigate to the website for which they want to configure the monitors.
- Access the website settings through Options and Edit > Edit Website.
- Go to the Assurance Monitors tab within the settings.
- Toggle the monitors they want to enable for their website, such as Domain Expiry, SSL Certificate, SSL Cipher, Security Headers, Safe Browsing, and SEO Stats.
