Additional Security Software
This document lists third-party software and modifications that you can install to help secure your server.
Security
Basic Security Concepts
This document describes some basic security concepts that you can use to protect your system from XSRF attacks.
cPHulk Management on the Command Line
This document describes how to manage cPHulk from the command line.
Determine Your System Status
Hosting providers and system administrators can use this document to determine whether their systems have been compromised.
Download Security
cPanel & WHM includes functionality to validate that you download all cPanel & WHM-delivered files in an uncorrupted state.
Guide to SSL
SSL/TLS (Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security) encrypts information between a visitor’s browser and a server.
How to Configure Microsoft Windows 7 to Use TLS Version 1.2
This document explains how to configure your Microsoft Windows® 7 workstation and Microsoft Outlook® 2010 mail clients to use Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol version 1.2.
How to Configure MySQL SSL Connections
This document describes how to configure your server to use SSL for MySQL® database connections.
How to Determine Password Strength
This document describes how cPanel & WHM determine password strength.
How to Mitigate Slowloris Attacks
This document provides several methods to mitigate the impact of Slowloris attacks.
How to Prevent cPanel Users from Creating Certain Domains
cPanel & WHM allows you to deny cPanel users the ability to create certain domains or use certain top-level domains (TLDs).
How to Reset a cPanel Account Password
cPanel & WHM allows you to to reset your cPanel account password.
How to Reset a cPanel Subaccount Password
cPanel & WHM allows you to to reset your Subaccount password.
How to Secure SSH
This document lists several helpful changes that you can make to your server to improve SSH security.
How to Troubleshoot Jailshell Problems on a Virtuozzo or OpenVZ VPS
This document explains common problems that occur on systems that use a jailed shell environment on a Virtuozzo or OpenVZ virtual private server (VPS).
How to Troubleshoot PCI Compliance Scans
To troubleshoot this issue, check for other SSLCipherSuite entries in your httpd.conf file.
How to Update Ciphers and TLS Protocols
This document lists the interfaces in cPanel & WHM in which you can adjust OpenSSL's protocols and cipher stacks for those services.
How to Use cPanel API Tokens
This document explains how to use cPanel's API tokens.
Legacy Security Levels
This document explains the security levels that apply to TSR releases before TSR-2017-0002.
More About TLS and SSL
This document explains the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols and how servers use them.