{"id":1711,"date":"2025-01-16T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/2025\/01\/16\/ftc-orders-godaddy-to-improve-security-practices\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T21:14:00","slug":"ftc-orders-godaddy-to-improve-security-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/ftc-orders-godaddy-to-improve-security-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC Orders GoDaddy to Improve Security Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>News Brief<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><span class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_bold\">Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Requires GoDaddy to Enhance Security Practices<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has found GoDaddy&#8217;s security policies to be inadequate and is requiring the web hosting company to implement a more rigorous set of security practices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">According to the FTC&#8217;s complaint, &#8220;GoDaddy has failed to implement reasonable and appropriate security measures to protect and monitor its website-hosting environments for security threats, and misled customers about the extent of its data security protections on its website hosting services&#8221; since 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">The FTC found GoDaddy failed to manage assets and software updates, assess risks to shared hosting services, adequately log and monitor any security-related events, and segment its shared hosting from insecure environments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">These cybersecurity failures led to several security breaches between 2019 and 2022, where hackers were able to gain unauthorized access to customers&#8217; websites and data, putting consumers of these websites at risk, according to the FTC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">All this while GoDaddy claimed on its websites, social media, and emails that it &#8220;deployed reasonable security and that it was in compliance with the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield Frameworks,&#8221; ultimately misleading its customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">Going forward, GoDaddy is required to establish and implement a comprehensive information-security program, and must hire an independent third-party to perform biennial reviews of its security program.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/cyber-risk\/ftc-orders-godaddy-inadequate-security-practices\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Brief Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Requires GoDaddy to Enhance Security Practices The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has found GoDaddy&#8217;s security policies to be inadequate and is requiring the web&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":1712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cybersecurity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/01\/GoDaddy1800_M4OS_Photos_alamy.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}