Comparative Analysis of Vulnerability and Threats Related to Blogging Platforms

Comparative Analysis of Vulnerability and Threats Related to Blogging Platforms

연구 분야: Strategies

학회: International Conference on Advancements in Smart Computing and Information Security

With the proliferation of technology and its advancements, blogs play a key role in writing content on various topics replacing the traditional ways of maintaining diaries. Blogging is becoming a passion for many people due to the services provided by free blogging platforms; bloggers are making a realm of it. Blogging platforms are widely used today by individuals, businesses, and organizations for content creation, marketing, and sharing information. However, they are also vulnerable to security threats, which can lead to data breaches, website defacements, or other cyber-attacks. In this paper, we have studied different blogging platforms like WordPress, Blogspot and Wix for analysing, the associated security concerns, and the threats and vulnerabilities these platforms face. These mentioned blogging platforms are widely used by bloggers. The popularity of these platforms is due to several unique features such as ease of its usage, flexibility, extensive feature sets. Here, security is the prime concern for bloggers as the content which are posted on these platforms are vulnerable to various threats and vulnerabilities. In this research paper, we performed the comparative analysis of vulnerability and threats related to three blogging platforms- WordPress, Blogspot and Wix by following the research methodology of experiment. The experiment was conducted using penetration testing on the above-specified blogging platforms to understand the better security features provided by them. Based on the vulnerabilities and threats identified for these platforms, it can be concluded that Blogspot platform provides better security features with less vulnerabilities and threats.