WordPress Security Basking Ridge, NJ

Our Basking Ridge security team has a checklist of WordPress hardening standards for out of the box WordPress installations.

• Limiting Login Attempts and renaming the default login location
• Enforcing Strong Admin Passwords
• Giving a nice name to admin users (to avoid disclosure of usernames for logins)
• Disabling User enumeration via WordPress's API as well as author ugly permalinks. aka ?author=1

More advanced security that isn't part of our Basking Ridge, New Jersey WordPress Security basic package includes:

• Renaming wp-content to custom name to protect against lazy scanners, as well as avoid being Google Dorked
  (people scanning Google for default WordPress paths for known vulnerable plugins)
• Custom WordPress Firewall Rules
• Security Monitoring and active responses
• Monthly maintenance of keeping everything up to date

Yes our Basking Ridge, New Jersey team offers WordPress malware clean up. It generally takes 24-48 hours for our team to assess and clean up your WordPress website. Then we monitor it for the next couple days to ensure no malicious files get regenerated. In rare cases when your hosting account doesn't have root access and the server has been infected on a root level, we might recommend you switch servers.

The internet is a vulnerable and insecure place, there is never a guarantee that your website won't be compromised at some point in time. Even big companies that have very intelligent cyber security professionals get compromised from time to time. Our service is for mitigating risk by keeping your site up to date with "known" patches. As well as implementing best security practices to minimize your risk. With our monthly security plan if in the rare case your site does get infected with malware we will remove it for free! (with the stipulation that you are following our recommended strong password policy)

With our Basking Ridge, New Jersey team the initial setup takes 24 hours, which includes creating a back up system on your server (where applicable), updating WordPress Core, WordPress Plugins and WordPress Themes. Afterwards we look over the website manually to ensure nothing has broken. Moving forward updates and inspection is done routinely on a monthly basis.