Which CMS Offers Best Security- Joomla or Drupal?
Which CMS Offers Best Security- Joomla or Drupal?
Article by Manish Rawat
With the introduction of content management system, website development has undergone a drastic change. With the help of CMS development highly professional, user friendly and dynamic websites are designed. There are many CMS designs available today. Joomla and Drupal are two of the most famous CMS. However, when it comes to security, which one is better? Joomla or Drupal?
Let us first talk about security in terms of CMS. A content management system needs to be thoroughly secure. The security issues for both Drupal and Joomla can be divided into the four main categories. These are as follows.
Core code: These are the modules one gets on downloading/installing Drupal or Joomla as developed by the team.
Third party extensions: These are the add-ons written by Drupal and Joomla developers that are made available to others either for free or for some cost.
Custom per-site coding: This is done by design firms and other developers.
Admin configuration and other settings: These are for setting access permission for groups, users, articles etc.
Besides these, there is also the security aspects concerning the physical server and its Operating system. When it comes to Drupal, the community is very serious about security. They also have a full fledged security team in place. For Joomla, security is based on purely access control. On the other hand, everything in Drupal is an object. The object can be of many types like content, media, applications etc. In Drupal the security principles are designed to integrate with third-party applications in a more flexible, modern and secure way.
The core is not the only thing that needs to be secure. Both Joomla and Drupal offer thousands of extensions. There is also the additional code that goes into creating the site. In order to create secure sites, it is important to create secure modules. Most of the extensions and code used are secure. But some are not. A third party component cab bypass the security provided by Joomla or Drupal.
To tackle this, Joomla has a security feature like a database class good enough to check the data passed to it. However, one concern is that the third party components do not undergo any formal testing by Joomla. In case of Drupal, the vetting process helps to reduce insecure code.
Thus both Joomla and Drupal have their own way of handling the security. It is up to the users to decide which one would be best for them. It is always better to select a custom CMS development based on one’s requirement. Hiring a good CMS development service can help curb the security issues.
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