6 Essential Tricks to Secure Your Vtiger CRM

How to secure Vtiger CRM and protect valuable data from being taken by employees when they leave or hackers. It is a critical issue, and the solution is not as easy as you think. That's why we would like to share some interesting tips.

1. Enable Two-Factor Authentication in Vtiger

Users logging into the CRM will be prompted for the username and password as usual. If the password is correct, instead of the dashboard, he/she will see another screen where the user will need to enter a code generated with the Google auth app.

This type of authentication provides an additional layer of security as an attacker is unlikely to be able to crack both layers to get a bypass.

Best Practices to Secure Your Vtiger CRM Data

This is how adding Vtiger Two Factor Authentication protects your data.

• With 2-Step Verification, if any guy hacks through your password, he’ll still need your phone code or Security Key to get access to the account.
• You will need to secure your account with something you know like your password and something you have, such as your security key. So a hacker needs to have access to your password and your phone.
• Every code is unique for any user. So there is no way to log in without the user's phone also admin user still has the chance to disable any particular user.

2. Prevent Brute Force Password Attacks in Vtiger

A brute force attack is mostly all hackers use to force their way into your site is using a brute force attack. This way, repeatedly trying to guess your username and password, often the password is not strong enough it can be guessed easily after some attack.

When the hacker has full access to your dashboard panel, then he can do anything. So this is the reason you should make sure your password is powerful. So here is one suggestion combination: uppercase and lowercase, special characters and numbers. This one is a great suggestion for changing a password once a month.

Easily configure password policies within a few seconds. With Vtiger Extension Development, you can implement custom security modules that enforce stricter password policies and login restrictions.

VGS Secure Passwords Module – Key Features

Vtiger CRM administrators can configure as per the strategies below:

• Password Expire Time. This policy allows you to specify how long a password is valid before it expires.
• Special Characters Policy. Force users to use special characters, such as!? * & etc.
• Mixed Case Policy. Mixed case passwords to contain both lower and UPPER case characters.
• Use Digits Policy. Force passwords to contain numeric digits.
• Password Length. Make sure to add the least number of characters a password should have, it will be improved in security.

How Does Vtiger Password Policy Enhance Security?

After installing the module Click on > Settings > Other Settings > VGS Secure Passwords, click here, and you will be able to set the password pattern to install as policy.

3. Choose Professional Hosting for Vtiger Security

As part of our CRM Software Development offerings, we help deploy secure and scalable CRM solutions in the cloud. In the Primary factor, it’s very important to secure website data structure their need for data access, and the resources you have available.

Why Cloud Hosting is a Secure Choice for Vtiger

• In budget very low investment
• Updates and maintenance are provided as a service from a hosting provider.
• It’s very easy to access your data anywhere, anytime.
• Data backup & disaster recovery the data is being stored.
• Now focus IT resources on your business goals, rather than system maintenance & support.
• Decrease the chance of loss due to natural disasters or theft.

4. Use Strong and Unbreakable Passwords in Vtiger

In the following paragraph, you will be able to read three rules that make it exponentially harder to crack your password. The strategies employed by password crackers so you need to know about the unbreakable password method.

• Avoid password patterns: Names, places and dictionary words.
• Longer Password With Mix Characters. Consider a 12-character password or longer.
• Mix it up With Variations. Use variations on capitalization, spelling, numbers, and punctuation.

After you have created your secure password, it’s not fully secure so one thing to remember: never reuse the same password again.

There are many different approaches you can take to create strong passwords, so you never have to again use:

• Register in password management tool: This is one of the best apps to store all passwords. All you have to do is remember a single master password that grants you access to the stored data. Enter your password once, and the management tool does the rest.
• Keep original passwords for your most valuable tools: Mostly out of memory by storing as many possible passwords in your head as possible. Use original ones for important sites like email and Social Media. Usually, it’s hard to crack the password for all the less important spots.

5. Keep Antivirus Software Updated for Vtiger Security

Make sure that all the systems of your employees are installed with antivirus and check that it is regularly updated to prevent malware incidents and protect data in the layer. So antivirus scan data often can determine the vulnerability of CRM under protection data. Additionally, integrating quality assurance testing can help identify security loopholes and performance issues early.

6. Secure Vtiger with Trusted IP Address Management

In Dynamics CRM Online to users with trusted IP addresses to reduce unauthorized access. When trusted IP address restrictions are applied to a user profile and the user attempts to log in from an unauthorized IP address, CRM access is blocked.

The last one on this post, we have been focusing on stolen data, but data protection also includes defending against lost data this is more important.

The CRM system in the cloud is not an excuse for skipping backup data. But Make sure this is well performed and regular and keep a copy of CRM data by the cloud service provider.

Do you want to start a fully secured Vtiger CRM project? Our Vtiger CRM Development Services ensure your CRM is protected with advanced security measures. Have anything interesting in your mind? Get in touch with us!

If you're unsure where to begin, our IT consulting experts can guide you through the best security strategies for your Vtiger CRM setup.