If you fall behind on your website security and maintenance, you’re all but asking to be hacked. (Most hacked sites are behind on publicly announced security updates.) If you use the ever-popular WordPress platform or follow any type of web-related news, you know there are seemingly endless updates and upgrades, many of which are related to some security issue or vulnerability. Keeping your website and its components up to date and secure is an ongoing maintenance task that you cannot afford to overlook, however confusing it can sometimes seem. Here’s what you need to know.

Web Security Defense Strategy

There are two roads to accomplish excellent security. On one you would assign all of the resources needed to maintain constant alert to new security issues. You would ensure that all patches and updates are done at once, have all of your existing applications reviewed for correct security, ensure that only security knowledgeable programmers do work on your site and have their work checked carefully by security professionals. You would also maintain a tight firewall, antivirus protection and run IPS/IDS.

Your other option: use a web scanning solution to test your existing equipment, applications and web site code to see if a KNOWN vulnerability actually exists. While firewalls, antivirus and IPS/IDS are all worthwhile, it is simple logic to also lock the front door. It is far more effective to repair a half dozen actual risks than it is to leave them in place and try to build higher and higher walls around them. Network and web site vulnerability scanning is the most efficient security investment of all.

If one had to walk just one of these roads, diligent wall building or vulnerability testing, it has been seen that web scanning will actually produce a higher level of web security on a dollar for dollar basis. This is proven by the number of well defended web sites which get hacked every month, and the much lower number of properly scanned web sites which have been compromised.

What we do for you

• Make a weekly backup of your entire website including your SQL database
• Regularly scan your website for malware, adware, virus and ransom ware
• Update your WordPress platform every time a new update is released
• Update your plugins when an update is released
• Update your theme settings and files
• Monitor and remove spam comments
• Monitor history of changes to your website
• Optimize your WordPress Database
• Monitor for unusual traffic patterns on your site
• Block IP login from suspicious addresses
• Restore your site in the case of a total site crash
• Send you regular reports so you have peace of mind that everything is in order