How to Secure Your Site if you Have Customized Plugins

Can you secure properly your website, blog or e-commerce if you have customized plugins or more?

The ugly truth. Not all is plug and play on the web developing world. Even if you are building a corporate website, blog or e-commerce. The answer is yes, you could secure it properly but let’s see which ways do you have to secure your site.

Once you start a project, you are supposed to follow the rules: update plugins, use child themes in WordPress, etc. But, the truth is the majority of the times, specially if you have your own customers, you do need to customize all. Plugins and theme are just examples. And that means double work

You may have a Prestashop e-commerce and it has never happened to it. The downtimes that you could have suffered have probably been incidences of the hosting provider. But what if you analyze your online income source and you’d discover that your site has infected files or backdoors that the hacker or attacker can use at any time to destroy your online store?

You can also be a developer or web marketing agency that develops for others and you are tired of the problems of infected sites. You have so many websites that you spend more time analyzing and cleaning malware than bringing value to your customers. Specially in this case, when you customize theme, plugin and everything that your customer needs. Even if you have a blog, or affiliate pages, you will not get rid of infections.

By securing we mean making your website cleaned and protected and above all with tools to detect, clean and recover the site if something happens to you. A cyber attack on your WordPress, malware or infection in your Joomla or Prestashop.

Even if you have customized components of the site, you can secure your site or your customer’s in different ways, against infections and malware and against attacks. 

Secure your website against malware or infections

You have different alternatives:

• Proactive security maintenance will clean your site and warn you from infections and malware. This makes easier to control any vulnerability or not updated component in your site. It is a must to clean any infection immediately so it does not become a real problem.
• Check blacklists continuously.
• Check vulnerabilities in your website blog or e-commerce. Not only plugins that need to be updated and you can not do it by just pressing a button, but also backdoors or vulnerabilities of your WordPress, Joomla, Prestashop or any site developed by you.

Why it is so important to continuously detect and clean up malware on your website?

You do not have to realize immediately that your website, blog or e-commerce has been infected. In fact, most developers or administrators realize when their online business have suffered the consequences.

The number one rule is to update everything. Tools, themes, plugins, WordPress, Joomla, Prestashop and all components. Indeed, recently, a large number of WordPress were hacked due to exploited vulnerability. But as we said before, there is not always time and it is not always easy to update everything after customize some components.

That is why it is crucial to have a security maintenance in your website, blog or e-commerce. Even if you update each component, it is increasingly important to analyze the state of your website daily and clean any possible infection as soon as possible.

Secure your site against attacks

With a protection maintenance, thanks to an application firewall or WAF, you can control many of the attacks and bots that want to reach your website. This is key if you have any vulnerability to exploit that you have not been able to fix yet.

If you want to check the dimension, enter your server and choose a timeframe to analyze the requests you have received. You will see that a very high percentage correspond to hacking attempts and bots. In addition to protecting your website, blog or e-commerce, do you know how many resources you could save if you block those attempts before they reach your website?

If you do nothing, if something ever happens to your website, you will have no choice but to recover it from the disaster. Of course, you won’t avoid the loss of content and probably customers.

At WeSecur we care that you can protect and secure your business. There are new types of attacks, infections and malware on a daily basis. That’s why you need security maintenance that takes care of your web, blog or e-commerce daily.