How to Choose a Website Security Provider

As more people are creating websites and becoming aware of website security, companies are popping up everywhere to help with the problem. And just like website security plugins, not all website security services are created equal.
Here at Sucuri, we … Continue reading How to Choose a Website Security Provider

PCI for SMB: Requirement 10 & 11 – Regularly Monitor and Test Networks

Welcome to the seventh post of a series on understanding the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard–PCI DSS. We want to show how PCI DSS affects anyone going through the compliance process using the PCI SAQ’s (Self Assessment Questio… Continue reading PCI for SMB: Requirement 10 & 11 – Regularly Monitor and Test Networks

How to Add SSL & Move WordPress from HTTP to HTTPS

Moving a WordPress website from HTTP to HTTPS should be a priority for any webmaster. Recent statistics show that over 33% of website administrators across the web use WordPress and many of these websites have still not added an SSL certificate.
Why i… Continue reading How to Add SSL & Move WordPress from HTTP to HTTPS

Add Security to Your Website Agency Portfolio

As a website industry professional, you are aware of the importance of website security. This is especially true when managing 10 or more sites. How can you convey this message to your customers?
Offering Website Security to Clients
Website security s… Continue reading Add Security to Your Website Agency Portfolio

Googlebot or a DDoS Attack?

A bot is a software application that uses automation to run scripts on the internet. Also called crawlers or spiders, these guys take on the simple yet repetitive tasks we do. There are legitimate bots and malicious ones. A Web Application Firewall (W… Continue reading Googlebot or a DDoS Attack?

Safer Internet Day: Security vs. Convenience

It isn’t easy to be secure all the time — this is especially true if you are new to cybersecurity. A well-formed security plan takes deliberate effort at the very least, and constant vigilance at most. Even the top experts have room to imp… Continue reading Safer Internet Day: Security vs. Convenience

Optimize Setup to Improve Your Website Resilience for DDoS Attacks

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks can disrupt website traffic and impact any business. To help website owners and webmasters improve their website resilience to DDoS attacks, we have put together a series of posts.
Here are the topics that … Continue reading Optimize Setup to Improve Your Website Resilience for DDoS Attacks

Improvements to SiteCheck Website Scanner

SiteCheck is Sucuri’s free website malware and security scanner offered to anyone who wants to scan their websites for malware and blacklist status.
Last year, we improved SiteCheck’s speed and reliability. Today, we are excited to share t… Continue reading Improvements to SiteCheck Website Scanner

OWASP Top 10 Security Risks – Part V

To bring awareness to what threatens the integrity of websites, we are continuing a series of posts on the OWASP top 10 security risks.
The OWASP Top 10 list consists of the 10 most seen application vulnerabilities:

Injection
Broken Authentication
Se… Continue reading OWASP Top 10 Security Risks – Part V

How to Improve Your Website Resilience for DDoS Attacks – Part III – WAF

In the first post of this series, we talked about the practices that will optimize your site and increase its resilience to DDoS attacks. In the second post, we focused on caching best practices that can reduce the chances of a DDoS attack taking down… Continue reading How to Improve Your Website Resilience for DDoS Attacks – Part III – WAF