Drupal 8 stands out as the most secure Content Management System (CMS) which comes bundled with a plenitude of advantages over other leading content management frameworks

1. Best Security Focussed CMS -
Drupal 8

3. Index
● Introduction
● Security features
● Major technical improvements
● Statistics are on Drupal’s side
● Conclusion

4. Introduction
● One of the most significant terms used on this planet is ‘Security’. You
get to read about nutrition security. Or, you get to hear about
cybersecurity. Often, you also get to see the emphasis being put on
national security.
● Security also plays a key role in the web development arena. Website
security is one of the most significant aspects that every business
considers to thrive on and dominate the internet space. Drupal 8
stands out as the most secure Content Management System (CMS).

5. Security features
With a proven track record of being the most secure CMS, Drupal has been
performing much better than its competitors in the CMS market.
Drupal Security Team is a force to reckon with when it comes to finding out
anomalies and fixing them.

6. Security features
● You can allow safe access to your Drupal site as it has the in-built
support for salting and repeatedly hashing account passwords when
they are stored in the database.
● It also enforces strong password policies.
● It offers essential security modules, industry-standard authentication
practices, session limits and single sign-on systems.
● It provides granular user access control.

7. Security features
● Database encryption can be done efficaciously.
● It is configurable to encrypt your complete website or just a part of it
like content types, nodes, and taxonomy terms.
● Drupal’s Form API assists in validating data in order to avoid XSS,
CSRF and other malicious data entry.
● It also limits the number of times login attempts are made from a
single IP address over a predefined period of time which enables you
to brute-force password attacks.

8. Security features
● The multi-layered cache architecture helps in minimising Denial of
Service (DoS) attacks; thus making it great for high traffic websites
and proving its immense scalability.
● Drupal conforms to the OWASP (Open Web Application Security
Project) standards and its community is committed towards
prevention of safety hazards.

10. Major technical
improvements
● Removing the PHP input format in the core
● Twig templates has resulted in better validation of 3rd party themes
● Twig auto-escaping has also prevented most frequently found Cross-
site scripting
● Tracking configuration in code has been streamlined with an auditable
history of changes through Configuration Management Initiative
● Use of filtered HTML format for content entry
● User session and session ID management

11. Statistics are on Drupal’s
side
Sucuri, security platform for websites, compiled the ‘Hacked Website
report’. Wordpress, Joomla, and Magento suffered the most.

12. Source: Sucuri

13. Source: Sucuri

14. MDPI, which pioneers in open access publishing, prepared a report called
‘A Comparative Study of Web Content Management Systems’. They used
Acunetix software for auditing the website. They compared Drupal and
Joomla in terms of most commonly occurring vulnerabilities - SQL
injection and XSS. Drupal came out as the clear winner.

15. Moreover, in the Cloud Security Report by Alert Logic, Drupal was reported
for the least number of web application attacks.

16. Source: Alert Logic

17. Conclusion
Website security is the most important constraint to survive without any
existential threats. Drupal has been the frontrunner when it comes to
choosing the security focussed CMS.