WordPress Security Newport News, VA

WordPress Security experts, over 10 years experience.
We can help you secure your WordPress installation.

Do you need WordPress Security?

We have services for Newport News based website owners offering WordPress Security to individuals, small businesses, medium size businesses, and large corporations. WordPress has a huge target on it's back so to speak. With over 40% of the web using WordPress as it's backend, hackers are constantly looking to exploit vulnerable plugins, or weak passwords. The most important part of creating a secure online presence in Newport News Virginia is making sure your website has the highest levels of security, as well as maintaining security updates.

We provide comprehensive WordPress Security solutions, to help ensure your WordPress website always up to date, secure and safe. Our Newport News team members have expertise in web hosting, malware protection, vulnerability scanning and malware removal.

Security is not just set it and forget it, you need to make sure everything is up to date with latest security patches. This is where maintenance comes into play and one of our primary services/focuses.

Our Newport News VA Maintenance Plans Include

WordPress Hardening

Industry standard WordPress hardening and our special security features as a bonus.

Automated Backups

Setup an automated backup system for a fail safe version of your WordPress installation.

Keep Up-To-Date

Monthly WordPress core and Plugin updates, with human inspection afterwards.

24/7 Monitoring

Up time monitoring that notifies our team to detect any server issues.

Frequently Asked Questions

WordPress Security Services in Newport News Virginia

Our Newport News 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 Newport News, Virginia 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 Newport News, Virginia 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 Newport News, Virginia 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.

City of Newport News, Virginia
Source: wikipedia

Newport News () is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 186,247. Located in the Hampton Roads region, it is the fifth-most populous city in Virginia and 140th-most populous city in the United States. Newport News is included in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. It is at the southeastern end of the Virginia Peninsula, on the northern shore of the James River extending southeast from Skiffe's Creek along many miles of waterfront to the river's mouth at Newport News Point on the harbor of Hampton Roads. Most of the area now known as Newport News was once a part of Warwick County. Warwick County was one of the eight original shires of Virginia, formed by the House of Burgesses in the British Colony of Virginia by order of King Charles I in 1634. In 1881, fifteen years of rapid development began under the leadership of Collis P. Huntington, whose new Peninsula Extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway from Richmond opened up means of transportation along the Peninsula and provided a new pathway for the railroad to bring West Virginia bituminous coal to port for coastal shipping and worldwide export. With the new railroad came a terminal and coal piers where the colliers were loaded. Within a few years, Huntington and his associates also built a large shipyard. In 1896, the new incorporated town of Newport News, which had briefly replaced Denbigh as the seat of Warwick County, had a population of 9,000. In 1958, by mutual consent by referendum, Newport News was consolidated with the former Warwick County (itself a separate city from 1952 to 1958), rejoining the two localities to approximately their pre-1896 geographic size. The more widely known name of Newport News was selected as they formed what was then Virginia's third largest independent city in population.With many residents employed at the expansive Newport News Shipbuilding, the joint U.S. Air Force–Army installation at Joint Base Langley–Eustis, and other military bases and suppliers, the city's economy is very connected to the military. The location on the harbor and along the James River facilitates a large boating industry which can take advantage of its many miles of waterfront. Newport News also serves as a junction between the rails and the sea with the Newport News Marine Terminals located at the East End of the city. Served by major east–west Interstate Highway 64, it is linked to other cities of Hampton Roads by the circumferential Hampton Roads Beltway, which crosses the harbor on two bridge-tunnels. Part of the Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport is in the city limits.