With the episode marking 10 Minute Joomla! Tips one year anniversary, your host Marco and the Conticreative.com team bring you a multi part Screencast about Joomla Security and what can be done to secure your Joomla website, your server, your computer and the way you work when building web sites. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------NOTE: You can find links, checklists and other information I discuss in the this episode here: www.conticreative.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- While focused on the Joomla CMS, this series of Screencasts on Joomla Security contain enough information to interest anyone concerned about PHP security for their own web site. One of the tools I'll demo in a future episode is the "OSE PHP Security Suite" a comprehensive security suite offered by Open Source Excellence. The suite is based on Joomla but it is installed as a stand alone, strip down, Joomla site. It can help protect many PHP scripts installed on the server.I'll also demo other products I find useful, if not outright necessary, such as Roboform (PC) and 1Password (MAC), two of the best "Password Managers" available. A class of software no serious computer user should be without and that help users manage complex passwords and other sensitive data. Not only you can save hours (and your sanity) by not looking for passwords in some unsecured text file, but you can also use them to keep and transmit a variety of sensitive data. All by memorizing a single master password.I don't pretend to be a security experts. In fact, I discovered a bit over a year ago that I was a security dilettante. I knew enough to get by and hoped that luck and good intentions would protect my sites. As inexperienced as I was, I probably still ranked in the top 5% or 10% when it came to Joomla security compared to the average Joomla user. I took most of the major precautions suggested in the Joomla forum, tried to practice "safe computing" as much as I could and I was always careful how I handled passwords and other sensitive information. But obviously it wasn't enough.This past year I was forced to learn a lot more about security. In this 2 or 3 part series (still to be decided as I have 50 minutes of raw footage to work with) I am going to try to cover the topic in an approachable yet comprehensive fashion. Starting with a user's own computer, to the best type of servers and how to secure them, to finally Joomla and its Security concerns.I don't claim to be a security "Guru" (yet, hopefully), but I feel that I have learned a great deal of useful information I would like to share for everyone's benefit. I hope that these podcasts will inform those that are just starting out and inspire the "Security Experts" to contribute their knowledge and experience. I hope you'll enjoy this Screencast and that you'll help me celebrate 10 Minute Joomla! Tips first anniversary. To read more about Joomla security and discuss this video, head on to this link:http://www.conticreative.com/10-Minute-Joomla-Tips-Video-Podcast/joomla-security-part-1.htmlThank you for watching 10 Minute Joomla! Tips. Less