WordPress Security – Tips and Strategies to protect website from hackers

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WordPress Security Tips and Strategies to
protect website from hackers
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Google blacklists 50,000 sites every week due to
malware. Isnt it enough to understand that
security is a critical part of your site?
Thinking that being a WordPress website owner,
you are secure on WordPress security matters.
Well! Catch this one! A security plugin reported
in 2018 that, 90 of its cleanup requests were
from WordPress only. However, WordPress security
is assured by hundreds of WordPress developers.
And they do a regular audit site security and
make sure it is safe.
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• However, WordPress security is assured by
  hundreds of WordPress developers. And they do a
  regular audit site security and make sure it is
  safe.
• Some smashing WordPress security stats you need
  to know before stepping further are
• 41 of attacks were caused due to WordPress
  hosting platform vulnerability.
• 44 of hacking is caused due to outdated
  WordPress sites.
• 52 of WordPress attacks are related to WordPress
  plugins.

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• High-priority WordPress Vulnerabilities
• DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)
• Backdoors
• Pharma hacks
• Malicious redirects
• Brute-force login attempts
• Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
• From all upper given vulnerabilities, DDoS is the
  most critical one. And If you want to know how to
  protect from DDoS vulnerability, click the link
  you just saw.

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WordPress security guide 2020 How to secure your
WordPress site? WordPress is secure for most of
the parts, but often called a not so safe
platform for businesses. That may be due to the
use of outdated WordPress software(s), nulled
plugins, bad credential management, broken system
administration, and lack of security and web
knowledge. In this article, we will talk about
some usual yet major WordPress security issues
and know the tactics to resolve.
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Security hacks (No coding required) Take
WordPress site backups- At the end of the day,
nothing is fully secure so as your WordPress
site. In such cases, backups are the first wall
of defence to tackle site security issues.
Whatever your site faces, at least not the pain
of recreating site data and content.
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• How to backup site data?
• Use free or paid WordPress backup plugins but
  keep in mind that take a full site backup.
• Try to keep it on remote locations (Cloud
  services) rather than hosting accounts.
• Use backup plugins such as VaultPress,
  UpdraftPlus, BackupBuddy.

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Use best security plugins-To have such a system
that regularly keeps an eye on your sites
on-goings, is a blessing. The security plugins
are the same. They keep examining everything from
the failed login attempts to malware scanning and
file integrating monitoring. How to secure
WordPress sites with security plugins? The best
free security plugin Sucuri Scanner tops the
list. After activation, the first thing you
should do is
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• Go to Sucuri menu at WordPress admin
• Generates a free API key (It will enable many
  vital security features )
• Click on hardening tab at the setting menu
• Appy hardening (It will lock the most Vulnerable
  areas of your site)
• Assure security with WAF- Web application
  farewell (WAF) works a security layer and
  prevents malware traffic before it reaches your
  site. There is a various level of WAF such as
• DNS level website farewell
• Application level farewell

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• The best WAF we want to suggest to you is Sucuri
  and Cloudflare.
• HTTPS(HTTPSSL) Certification- SSL(Secure Socket
  Layer) is a protocol to code data between users
  browsers and your website. It makes it harder for
  invaders to steal the information.
• How SSL works?
• Browser request a connection
• Server sends the certificate with a public key
• Browsers check for certificate validity
• Hide (convert in code) via public key
• Server decodes data via public key

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When it comes to WordPress, many hosting
companies offer free SSL certificates. If you
follow at least the non-coding ones, youve
already a bit secure. But for more solid
security, keep moving and check out the
coding-required security hacks. Security hacks
(Coding required) Change default admin name-
Like good old days, if you are still using the
default admin names that are like admin, then
its high time to change them.
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• You must be thinking of how it requires coding?
  Well, while installing WordPress, it asks for a
  custom user name. However, if WordPress doesnt
  allow you to do so, try it like this way
• Create a new admin username and delete the old
  one
• Use the user name changer plugins
• Update user name through phpMyAdmin
• Limits the login attempts- By default, one can
  perform many attempts to log in. It runs-up
  hackers chances to guess your credentials.

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However, if you are using the beforehand
mentioned failed login attempts security plugin
to secure your site, then your site is
secure. Add 2FA(Two-factor authentication)- 2FA
is self-explanatory. While login, you need to
cross through two verifications. First, you have
to login through user name and password and
second authenticate from a separate device. For
example, you have seen this to Facebook, Twitter,
Google and many other famous sites while login.
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• How to apply two-factor authentication?
• Install 2FA plugin
• Install 2FA app on your phones such as Authy and
  LastPass authenticator
• Ask you to scan the barcode while login

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working on our clients WordPress site security
issues and want you to take care of them too.
There is still so much remaining that you need to
look for your WordPress website security. If you
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company to perform these upper given and other
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