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 back to the last version you know worked. Chapter 7 in this minibook shows you how to back up your website.
Understanding the Basics of Web Security
Information security is the act of protecting information ...
