To keep your site clean through a proper web security maintenance it is imperative that you be very careful with everything you have installed. Having obsolete or unused plugins, components or themes is one of the main causes of infection among our customers. And luckily, it has easy solution.
Avoid an infected site taking care of themes and plugins
There are three very simple solutions to preserve the security in your web:
- Keep updated plugins, components and themes you use
- Remove themes and plugins that you do not use or that are obsolete
- If you have outdated software and are very complicated to update it use an application firewal to block attacks that attempt to exploit known (and unknown) vulnerabilities.
Avoid an infected web taking care of your database
Take care of your database and maintenance scripts or executables. Most CMS or current content managers like WordPress, Joomla or Drupal store a lot of information in the database. That is why it is the perfect target for hackers who try to infect your site or leave backdoors to reinfect it whenever they want.
Be especially careful with maintenance scripts and access to them. Make sure that:
- You have restricted your use and these scripts are not public
- Change their name to make it difficult to access
- Protect them with password
- Eliminate them if you do not use them
The special case of WordPress databases
In WordPress developed site you must be careful with the integrity of serialized data.
This is the programming method that uses WordPress to improve, for example, the performance. Nevertheless, it is also true that it complicates the updating of data in the database. That is why, in case you have injected malware into the database of your WordPress, you can not delete it directly. It is necessary to preserve the integrity of the serialized data to not break the site.
Anyway, we are here to help you with the maintenance of your website and to eliminate any infection.
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