April 2014
Beginner
50 pages
1h 7m
English
Overview
Everyone is out to get you! There are spammers, crackers, and
hackers all over the globe attempting to infiltrate millions of
websites. Their goal is to break through your proverbial front
door. You should take security concerns seriously when setting up
and maintaining your WordPress blog or website. This ebook offers
important techniques on how to protect your site and user data.
WordPress expert Jesse Friedman will help you:
• Learn who’s out there and how to address Botnets,
spammers, and personal or direct attackers
• Understand basic security precautions and how to use the
key tools of the trade to protect your site–BruteProtect,
Clef, VaultPress, Akismet, and CloudFlare
• Discover how to update your core, vet your plugins, update
themes, and stop Botnets to safeguard your site
About the Author:
As the Director of Innovation at BruteProtect, Jesse Friedman
spends all his time innovating, arriving at, testing and building
solutions. He is passionate about helping the world by connecting
people through data. Jesse shares his experience and knowledge as a
leader in the industry by serving as a professor at one of two
universities in Rhode Island, speaking on the stages at conferences
like SXSW, WordCamps, or Future Insights, and writing books,
articles, and blog posts. As a veteran WordPress developer and long
time advocate of open source, Jesse hopes to continue to spread the
word in order to help people, businesses, and organizations improve
their lives through technology. He writes and teaches online at
http://jes.se.com.
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