Chapter 5
Configuring WordPress for Optimum Security
IN THIS CHAPTER
Introducing web security
Understanding today’s web threats
Reducing the risk of attack
Using sources you can trust
Cleaning up to avoid a soup-kitchen server
Hardening WordPress
In this chapter, you deal with web security and how it pertains to WordPress. There are a lot of scary threats on the Internet, but with this chapter — and WordPress, of course — you’ll have no problem keeping your website safe and secure.
Always have a reliable backup system in place so if something goes wrong with your website, you can reset it to the last version that you know worked. Book 2, Chapter 7 shows you how to back up your website.
Understanding the Basics of Web Security
Information security is the act of protecting information ...
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