Thursday, December 6, 2012

Increasing Your Website Security Using Secure WordPress Plugins and Other Techniques


Today, there are practically Several WordPress security plug-ins available to keep your WordPress sites secured and free from hacker attacks. Each of these plug-ins offers unique features and techniques to keep your websites away from the attention of cyber criminals who are always looking for attractive yet very vulnerable websites that generate good traffic and income.

Perhaps one of the best WP security plug-ins that you can use is the Secure WordPress plugin. This one bolsters the security of your WP site by removing error information on your login pages, adding index.html to your plugin directories, hiding WP version in your back-end dashboard for non-admin users, removing Windows Live Writer, as well as blocking any bad queries that can be harmful to your website.

Indeed, there is so much you can get from merely installing this plug-in to your website. But do you know that this is not enough to completely protect your site from all forms of malicious scripts, malware and other website hosting issues that can attack your website's weak points? In this case, it is highly recommended to apply a few other techniques in addition to using Secure WordPress plugin and these are the following:

1. Update your core. One of the biggest factors that enable malware attacks is running outdated software. In fact, this factor has contributed to more than 70 percent of all the cases of hacker attacks in the past few years. There are several ways on how you can update your core. One of which is enabling the automatic update feature in your WordPress admin panel.

2. Update your themes and plugins. The second way to increase the security of your website is by updating your themes and plugins. Like outdated WordPress core, old and inactive themes and plugins can also easily attract malicious scripts and allow attacking your website and stealing sensitive information. Even if you think that these things are working just fine, you should never forget to update them to prevent Internet evildoers from finding a single hole where they can easily gain entry to your blog or web site.

3. Make sure your local infrastructure is safe. Perhaps you are wondering how this one applies to your WordPress site. Basically, keeping your local infrastructure safe likewise keep everything you do online secured. As much as possible, you must keep your computer updated by installing software with the latest fixes on a regular basis. It is also ideal to install new versions of anti-virus solutions and software firewalls. These are very beneficial when it comes to detecting malicious software from attacking your web properties.

4. Hire WordPress security service. Most importantly, you could hire a reliable WP security service that can keep your website version updated, as well as the other important aspects that you may sometime fail to remember. If possible, choose someone who can truly identify all the tricks and methods of a hacker and properly fix them.

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