Smitty’s Internet Security Services can provide a monthly review of your website to examine the security of your WordPress website. There are a number of places a hacker can try to gain access to your WordPress website. We can secure those point of intrusion and conduct a monthly backup. Depending on the type of other than WordPress website, we can backup your website and in the event of a disaster, we can help restore your website.
Your website is constantly under threat. There are steps that can be taken to prevent 99% of attacks and we can help implement that strategy.
- Examine the Website Security & Backups
- Stay updated – we update the website on a regular basis
- Toughen up access control. – Limit the number of login attempts within a certain time, even with password resets, because email accounts can be hacked as well.
- Update everything. – Hackers can scan thousands of websites an hour looking for vulnerabilities that will allow them to break in
- Tighten network security.
- Install a web application firewall.
- Install security applications.
- Hide admin pages.
- Limit file uploads.
- Install and update a website to add a Secured Socket Layer protection (SSL) – Install an SSL certificate on your site – An SSL certificate secures the transfer of information – such as credit cards, personal data, and contact information – between your customers, website and the server. Also helps with your website rankings with the search engines
- Remove plugins and themes that are no longer maintained or used
- Run monthly backups on regular schedule.
- Make sure your passwords are secure
- Lock down your directory and file permissions
- Keep your server clean
- Review web hosting platform