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August 12, 2016I’ve heard WordPress isn’t secure. Will my website get hacked?
Did you know that 43.2% of the Web is run on WordPress? Security is a hot topic these days, and WordPress is at the center of it simply because it’s grown to be so largely used. Hackers like to expend their energy on targets that will give them the most bang for their buck, and WordPress is one of those targets. There isn’t a single website out there that is 100% secure, but there are significant ways to reduce your risk of a security breach – especially if you’re using WordPress.
We take security seriously, so we take multiple approaches to significantly reduce our clients’ risk.
- We educate our clients on the use of strong passwords so that password-guessing algorithms can’t easily find their way into the backend administration for WordPress. Did you know that many people don’t change the default username from “admin” and will often use a password such as “1234admin”? These are the websites that will get hacked. Your risk is signficantly reduced if you create a strong password for all users.
- We install a number of security plugins that prevent attacks. Since we use more than one, we cover our bases on multiple fronts. We also get notified immediately if something fishy is going on.
- If you host with us, we have implemented many security features directly on our server. This helps keep the bad guys out before they even get to your website.
- If you host with us, we do all backups and updates as part of our hosting service. Outdated WordPress files are an invitation for a security breach. Every week we create backups of all the websites on our server, and we update all WordPress core files and plugins to ensure any security holes are patched as soon as an update is available.
- We partner with a security firm that provides us with a website firewall and monitoring service. While this service costs extra, many of our clients have found it invaluable for protecting their websites from a security breach.
Rest assured we have spent a lot of time making our server a secure environment and every WordPress website we create as secure as possible. We are happy to discuss security measures in detail if you still have questions. Contact us today.
Additional resources: Articles posted in our Security Series
