9. Robust publishing systems

Websites are prime targets for attackers of all kinds: if they are compromised, the hope is to gain access to the sensitive data of both the site's publisher and its visitors, in order to steal both, whether by falsifying orders for goods sold by the platform, or by hijacking the Internet user's means of payment, or by any other means that the imagination of hackers deploys on a daily basis.

In any case, the complexity of today's Web, as analyzed above, should prompt the would-be editor to exercise caution before embarking on naive development based on HTML, PHP and MySQL manuals. There's every chance of repeating all the mistakes made over the last twenty years, and thus opening up all the well-known loopholes for attackers. Of course, if the aim is to become the new Google, that's a different matter, because for such a venture it's necessary to produce its own...