In my last post I gave you an insight into how I perfect SSL security. In this post I am going to run through how I harden a production apache instance.

I often get asked for the best way to ensure perfect A or A+ level of SSL security on Apache web servers. So to answer that particular question, here is how I go it.

Research, released by the UK government, found that 43% of all businesses have b een hit by a breach in the last 12 months, with that number rising to 66% among larger companies.

The data of millions of users has been exploited by the British firm on behalf of political clients but surely it was only ever a matter of time before we were all used and abused by the highest bidders?