Website defacement is a very important security threat for any organization that operates online. The term refers to unauthorized modifications to the appearance of a single web page or an entire site, usually carried out by hackers using methods such as phishing, code injection, and cross-site scripting. These attacks can involve inserting malicious content, malicious code, or removing valuable information - causing severe damage to your business reputation and reliability.

PerfX monitoring tools offer powerful functionality that protects your website by verifying its integrity at regular intervals. It detects unauthorized content modifications and other key indicators of potential security breaches. These features are part of the performance monitoring solution offered by the PerfX app. Once activated, the website content monitor continuously polls your web pages to identify and track any instances of data tampering.

Benefits of Content Monitoring

Using a website content monitoring tool likePerfX paves the way for ensuring constant uptime of your business-critical website through constant vigilance against malicious attacks. Monitoring your web page for content changes comes with tons of advantages like:

• Fast detection of security breaches on your website including unauthorized addition or modification of HTML elements (as well as the percentage of text and script modified
• Rapid discovery of quality issues, outages and website hijacking
• Identifying changes in an HTML element's 'href' or 'src' attributes to a previously unused domain name
• Early identification of security infringements
• Amped-up defence against SQL injection attacks
• Increased website and web application availability

Inspect HTML elements with a Website Defacement Monitor

The Website defacement monitoring feature from PerfX allows you to keep track of six basic HTML elements namely Text, Script, Image, Anchor, Iframe and Link. It detects changes in website elements and such unauthorized access or changes in the website content is brought to attention in the form of alert notifications.

Our Standard Content Defacement Check Includes:

• Text Defacement: Detect unauthorized modifications to visible content rendered on the web page.
• Script Defacement: Monitor changes in embedded scripts and any updates to the 'src' attribute of external scripts.
• Image Defacement: Track alterations to the 'src' attribute of images. Alerts are generated if images are loaded from new domains not previously captured.
• Anchor Defacement: Identify changes in the 'href' attribute of anchor links. Notify when links point to domains outside the captured list.
• Iframe Defacement: Detect updates to the 'src' attribute in iframe elements. Alerts are triggered for domain changes in the configured URLs.
• Link Defacement: Monitor 'href' attribute updates in link elements on the web page.