WordPress Security for beginners

Setting up basic security for prevention going over the basics of how to harden WordPress.

  • Website Hosting not all are creating equal
    • Why listening to their sales person is a bad idea
    • True cost of being cheap on hosting
  • Updates
    • Backing Up before you update
    • Why you should be up to date
  • Permissions
    • Controls Why and Who should access
    • Defining controls beyond default roles
    • Passwords why your favorite passwords are bad and the time it takes to hack them (This may shock you)
  • Securing Site
    • File Permissions
    • Changing Defaults
    • How to change the admin password they say you can’t change
  • Monitoring Tools
    • What tools exist
    • Where you can get more info
  • Typical Hacks and what to look for.
    • Easy but scary
    • Getting better but easy to spot if you see it
    • Hard to determine but how to catch them anyways.

Speaker

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