WP Security Related Reviews
It's said that in 2019 there will be more than 300% more hacking attempts than in previous user.
Sounds like a lot of stuff is going down? You're right! You think your will be spared? Noooope!
Most security breach incidents happen when bots of hackers stumble upon an website running server or software that's out of date or with known security holes.
They might then use this holes to inject your website with malicious code that's:
* injecting your stuff with redirects and links,
* swap the links to your theme and in other unpopular spots,
* try to expand to your whole server once it gets your site breached.
The biggest disadvantage when defending against this type of attack is the fact that we might not even notice anything changed. Gladly there are number of solutions we have at our disposal.
The first line of defence is good WordPress security plugin, there's a lot of lists of them and of course a team of top leading ones. At this time they will protect your site when it's facing 99% of automatic scans.
Since I didn't have much time to compile all of that by myself you can see very detailed comparison in best WordPress security plugins post. Most of plugins from that blog post work in a simple manner checking the same list of vulnerabilities, but the best ones have lots of proactive features ready at your disposal. Here is a set of critical features according to my experience and that's what we'll be looking for.
Carry on with alarming and updating my themes and plugins.
Allow to verify that my WordPress files didn't change.
Allow to block various bots by headers and IP.
4. Have a considerable amount of hardening features.