Joomla! is a well known and popular platform. In fact, the joomla.org site itself receives several thousand hits a year. While there isn't a known figure for the amount of websites running Joomla!, a search in Google revealed over ten million sites that have it or reference it.
With a popular platform like Joomla!, sites are a target for hackers. And many of these sites are easy targets for a variety of reasons such as incorrect permissions, sites not being properly maintained, bad hosting choices, and more.
In this chapter you'll learn how to do the easy and medium difficulty tasks, designed to eliminate quite a few of the issues you may experience.
Lastly, we'll cover some tools and techniques designed to keep you safe.
For those interested in going deeper into security, you may wish to purchase Joomla! WebSecurity from Packt Publishing. It deals with the full gamut of security for your Joomla! site. It is available from Amazon.com and directly from PacktPub.com.