Ensuring your WordPress Security.

Ensuring your WordPress Security.

Making your site immune to viruses, malware, Trojan horses or hackers is not an easy thing. Therefore WordPress Security is a major issue for all those who are dealing with WP on a daily basis for business or blogging. For ensuring safety of your site you must know what is making it vulnerable.

WP sites are often targeted since WordPress is generally used for blogging. Hence making it an ocean of content. There are various site on the internet, each coded differently for making themselves immune to any external interference but this is also true for the hackers and malware as they also develop different techniques to break into your website..

With the ever changing technology, you can add an iron wall to protect your data but the same iron formula can also be used by some malicious party to break your wall. So there is no such thing as 100% security, everything and anything which is present on the internet shares equal chances of getting hacked or a security breach.

 When you can pinpoint the places which can become a potential source of security breach, you might be able to avoid it. These sources could be:

·        A malicious code, which is transferred to you or is downloaded by you unknowingly, has the potential to disrupt your entire system.

·        Phishing sites, those sites which are disguised as some well-known site to steal your identity and confidential information.

·        Malware or viruses, these are the code specifically designed to harm your system and data.

·        An insecure websites which provide access to private data without using any user credentials.

When you have a common or predictive username and password, your account can be hacked through brute force or dictionary attacks and so on.

 There are numerous ways a person or a program can infiltrate your system, a single security hole is enough. Then how are you going to save your data? Even if you know nothing of data security, we have some key measures which can help you a lot.

 

WordPress Security.

First thing keep your WordPress and all its plugins & themes updated, since WP itself is working on its security issues and brings it up as an update. So make sure to update your software. Take backups daily, this will help you to restore your data when you met with any problem.

Change your password at regular intervals and do use alphanumeric characters while making one. Check all your file permissions and do not give unnecessary access to anyone. Make use of encryption algorithms to send and receive data, and a two way authentication is must while using FTP

Install a good backup plugin or antivirus for your system and bring up the firewall. Firewall is very helpful against various security breaches. Do not download files and media from any unknown sources, there is a great possibility that they provide you infected files.

Conclusion:

One cannot ensure their WordPress security by simply downloading and installing few backup and security plugins. Security breach can happen with the slightest mistake on your part. You cannot ensure a 100% security of your site but small things can help you to make your data safe and secure.