Raising Awareness: WPBeginner Spotlight

We’re dedicated to creating the best website security guides and professional services. One way we get our message out is by partnering with open-source CMS communities, web devs, and industry professionals.
Small businesses and bloggers don&#82… Continue reading Raising Awareness: WPBeginner Spotlight

How to Stop a DDoS Attack & Prevent Future Attacks

DDoS attacks are a growing threat for websites. But do you know how to mitigate them in their tracks? We’ll cover some essential fundamentals on stopping a DDoS attack and preventing them from happening in the future.
Specifically, as a webmaste… Continue reading How to Stop a DDoS Attack & Prevent Future Attacks

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

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?

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

Sucuri Named December 2018 Gartner Customers’ Choice for Web Application Firewalls

The Sucuri team is excited to announce that we have been recognized as a December 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for the Sucuri Firewall. Our team takes great pride in this distinction, as customer feedback continues to shape our p… Continue reading Sucuri Named December 2018 Gartner Customers’ Choice for Web Application Firewalls

Real-Time Fine-Tuning of the WAF via API

Though the Sucuri Firewall is simple to set up and protects your website immediately, it’s possible to have granular control of the WAF by using an API.
For instance, there’s a specific filter inside the WAF dashboard called Emergency DDoS… Continue reading Real-Time Fine-Tuning of the WAF via API

Product Update: Sucuri Firewall in Singapore and Amsterdam

Over three years ago, we transitioned the Sucuri Firewall (WAF) away from the cloud and expanded it to run on top of our own Anycast content delivery network (CDN).
We provide security for websites with the protection of our WAF as well as perfor… Continue reading Product Update: Sucuri Firewall in Singapore and Amsterdam

PCI for SMB: Requirement 5 & 6 – Maintain a Vulnerability Management Program

This is the fourth post in a series of articles on understanding the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard – PCI DSS. We want to show how PCI DSS can help anyone going through the compliance process using the PCI SAQ’s (Self Assessm… Continue reading PCI for SMB: Requirement 5 & 6 – Maintain a Vulnerability Management Program

How to Improve Website Resilience for DDoS Attacks – Part II – Caching

In the first post of this series, we talked about the practices that will optimize your site and increase your website’s resilience to DDoS attacks. Today, we are going to focus on caching best practices that can reduce the chances of a DDoS att… Continue reading How to Improve Website Resilience for DDoS Attacks – Part II – Caching