For those of you who are not familiar with Joomla!, it is an open-source tool for designing web sites. It has been rapidly rising in popularity due to its ease of use, its lightweight design, and its use of security. When it comes to security, Joomla! differs itself from the other web design software in the following manner:

Joomla!, an open-source content management system, uses Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner to automatically audit its PHP-based website. Acunetix WVS scans the site for SQL injection, cross-site scripting and other vulnerabilities, thereby averting possible hacker attacks.

The Joomla! Core Team Quality & Testing Working Group’s mission is to help improve the quality, stability and security of the Joomla! Core Code, through continuous rigorous testing and quality reporting. The extensive PHP-based Joomla! Core Code was, until recently, tested manually. “Performing a manual security audit each time we released a new version would take up too many hours and resources. Manual auditing is highly complex and it means that you have to keep track of considerable volumes of code as well as the latest techniques being used by hackers. Finding an automated solution was, therefore, essential,” said Mr. Muilwijk, member of the Quality and Testing Team.

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While we primarily use other web design software at the moment, we constantly hear great things about the potential of Joomla!. If anyone uses Joomla! here, we would love to hear what you have to say about it.

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