Hardening
Traffic Inspector in a nutshell
Traffic Inspector constantly screens all suspicious requests and blocks them before they can harm a website. This security algorithm is enabled by default and in the vast majority of cases requires no configuration. It is improved based on the knowledge we get during analyzing attempts to break-in and hacker attacks in our [...]
Brute-force, DoS, and DDoS attacks – what’s the difference?
Let's make things clear with these intruder activities that happens every day on any website. How are they dangerous? What tools or plugin can mitigate them? What are chances that we can do that successfully?
Turn your WordPress into Fort Knox
This article assumes that we want to get a bulletproof protected website powered by WordPress. It’s not necessarily to do all the following steps word for word and point by point exactly as described. But I do recommend that if you want to create your own Fort Knox. Security Blog How to protect WordPress effectively: a [...]
Hardening WordPress with WP Cerber
All suggested settings are highly recommended for most websites on the Internet. If you need, for some reason, these functions are being accessible from a particular computer or an IP network you can easily add them to the White IP Access List. Disable REST API The plugin restricts access to the WordPress REST API. The ability [...]
How to protect WordPress with Fail2Ban
By using WP Cerber Security and Fail2Ban together you can reinforce protection at the most effective level. That allows you to protect a WordPress from brute-force and DoS attacks at the OS level with iptables. Read more about attacks: Brute-force, DoS, and DDoS attacks – what’s the difference? Note: you have to have the root [...]
Hardening WordPress with WP Cerber and NGINX
NGINX is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. WP Cerber is a free, open-source, security plugin which protects WordPress powered sites from intruders and hackers. How to hardening WordPress using WP Cerber and NGINX together First of all, you need to set up a Custom login URL and check Block direct access to [...]
How to hide wp-admin and wp-login.php from possible attacks
With WP Cerber Security you can do that with several clicks. Open WP Cerber main settings page. Check Disable automatic redirecting to login page when /wp-admin/ is requested by unauthorized request Enter your desired custom login URL into the Custom login URL field Remember or bookmark custom login UR, otherwise you will not be able to [...]