I am making a website for my school that has many pages. One of the pages is a form that sends the info entered to an email. The way the information is sent is using a outlook api that sends me a email when information is submitted on the form using php.
I want to protect the info that is entered specifically. I didn’t want to keep the information on the directory of my website because I feel this would be a major vulnerability. That is why I went with a email api. Is there a chance this information could fail to send randomly if it worked before? And could hackers get access to the information or change api to there own?
I know this is two questions in one. Feel like both questions could be answered in one answer of protecting the info and I don’t want to make another post feels spammy.
Only security measure I have right now which is not related to protecting the information is a way to validate information entered on the form . Currently I have been mainly focusing on the front-end part of my website so haven’t gave much thought to security measures.
Any tips or ideas are welcome.