WordPress Security Santa Barbara, CA

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

Do you need WordPress Security?

We have services for Santa Barbara 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 Santa Barbara California 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 Santa Barbara 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 Santa Barbara CA 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 Santa Barbara California

Our Santa Barbara 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 Santa Barbara, California 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 Santa Barbara, California 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 Santa Barbara, California 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 Santa Barbara, California
Source: wikipedia

Santa Barbara (Spanish: Santa Bárbara, meaning 'Saint Barbara') is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat. Situated on a south-facing section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Santa Barbara's climate is often described as Mediterranean, and the city has been dubbed "The American Riviera". According to the 2020 U.S. Census, the city's population was 88,665.In addition to being a popular tourist and resort destination, the city has a diverse economy that includes a large service sector, education, technology, health care, finance, agriculture, manufacturing, and local government. In 2004, the service sector accounted for 35% of local employment.Area institutions of higher learning include the University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara City College, Westmont College, and Antioch University. The city is served by Santa Barbara Airport and train service is provided by Amtrak, which operates the Pacific Surfliner, which runs from San Diego to San Luis Obispo. The Santa Barbara area is connected via U.S. Highway 101 to Los Angeles 100 mi (160 km) to the southeast and San Francisco 325 mi (525 km) to the northwest. Behind the city, in and beyond the Santa Ynez Mountains, is the Los Padres National Forest, which contains several remote wilderness areas. Channel Islands National Park and Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary are located approximately 20 miles (30 km) offshore.