Fact: over 30,000 websites are hacked everyday. Fact: cybercrime costs the global economy over $450 billion. Fact: over 1.5 million WordPress sites were hacked in a single day this year due to a single vulnerability. 

Don’t think website security isn’t important. 

Cyber-criminals are out there using sophisticated software to scan the internet for any type of vulnerable website.

Hackers don’t care if your website is big, small, non-profit, or profit-making. A hacked website is worth money to them as they can either extort money from a website owner or place links or code on the site to support some other type of criminal activity.

Online security is of paramount importance to every human being on this planet. This course is for everybody. There is very little use of technical terminology or advanced online procedures. Anyone with basic computer skills can protect any WordPress website by following this course.

The course starts with the two biggest causes of hacks on websites and shows you the simple and non-technical ways to protect yourself. The two biggest causes of hacks on WordPress websites are:

• Easily guessed or stolen usernames and password
• Out of date software

I continue to explain how to ensure all the software that’s used to run your site, not only the WordPress software, is not only up-to-date but kept up-to-date. We also cover home directory and webroot hygiene as well as disabling directory listing and error reporting. 

I then show how to set up and install the Wordfence Security plugin which will:

• Protect a site with a cloud-based firewall
• Scan your site every day for known vulnerabilities and changes in the WordPress code
• Block malicious IPs and requests

I demonstrate how to set up and schedule back-ups. So if anything goes wrong in the future you can restore your site back to an early copy. I then go on to explain step-by-step technical methods to really lock down a WordPress website.

Don’t think that online security doesn't matter to you. Your online security is as important as your physical security. 

Who should take this course?
Anyone who uses WordPress

What will you learn in this course?

• How to use secure and unguessable passwords that are different on every site
  Most common ways a WordPress website can get hacked and guard against them easily, cheaply and quickly
• Set up an automated strategy of scanning and backing-up so you are alerted to possible vulnerabilities
• Learn how to secure and “lock-down” a WordPress website from hackers using a variety of technical tweaks
• Learn the best practices of username and password management

Follow step-by-step instructions to install the free Wordfence Security plug-in. Set up a powerful protective firewall on the cloud. Block malicious IPs and block all attempted “brute-force” attacks. Find out easy ways to update all software on the websites, as well as ensuring it stays up-to-date.