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Wordpress Security

Name: Wordpress Security
Rating: 4.2 (29 reviews)

Secure your Wordpress websitesite quickly and with minimal effort, eliminating most security threats almost instantly.

Created bySean Kaye

Last updated 4/2018

English

English [Auto],

What you'll learn

Learn the fundamentals of good Wordpress Security
Understand the risk profile of their Wordpress site from a security perspective
Identify weaknesses in their Wordpress site's security posture
Setup their Wordpress site to minimize security threats
Learn best security practices for a Wordpress site

Course content

7 sections • 25 lectures • 2h 28m total length

Welcome To Easy Wordpress Security3:21
Speed up your WordPress security confidence by understanding your site's risk profile, common attack vectors, and practical, up-to-date actions that reduce risk through step-by-step videos and support.
Who is this Course for? Who is this Course not for?4:28
Identify who this WordPress security course serves—bloggers, hobbyists, small businesses, content creators, and digital marketing providers—and emphasize practical, actionable security tactics for basic WordPress users.
Connect With Me0:20

The Scope of the Security Problem with Wordpress4:02
Explore the scope of WordPress security and the complexity of securing open source software. Learn how defensive tools make most attacks preventable.
Security is Hard and Complex3:50
Protect your WordPress site by embracing that security is hard and complex, then simplify setup to reduce attack surface and avoid unnecessary plugins.
The Basics of Good Wordpress Security9:46
Practice simplicity and vigilance to secure WordPress with regular updates, trusted plugins and themes, backups, and layered defenses that balance usability with protection.

Server Software Exploits4:14
Identify the server and hosting platform attack types facing WordPress and explain how exploits arise from code flaws in WordPress, plugins, and hosting stacks, with open source patches released publicly.
Wordpress Code, Theme and Plugin Exploits6:32
WordPress is highly secure, but most breaches stem from themes and plugins. Poorly updated themes and plugins with third-party components create back doors, jeopardize data, and enable botnets.
Password Vulnerability Exploits6:11
Strengthen Wordpress security by enforcing strong passwords and unique usernames, defending against brute force and dictionary attacks, and obfuscating default admin credentials.
Denial of Service Attacks4:56
denial of service attacks flood a site with traffic to overwhelm servers; secure your WordPress site to prevent involvement of compromised sites in this distributed threat.
Zero Day Attacks and Vulnerabilities6:32
Explore zero day attacks and vulnerabilities, including in the wild and researcher disclosures, and learn how auto updates, plugin checks, and backups mitigate risks on WordPress sites.

Wordpress Security and Webhosting10:47
Hardening your WordPress site with a layered security strategy, including initial configuration and updates. Explore hosting options—from fully managed WordPress to dedicated servers—focusing on support and backups.
Installing Wordpress With Good Security By Default6:19
Install WordPress securely by default with strong credentials, using a non-admin username and a generated password, and immediately update the core, themes, and plugins after installation.
The Importance of Backups9:10
Back up your WordPress site regularly with full backups to offsite storage and enable alerting for failures. Use a rotation strategy to automate backups and enable quick recovery or migration.
Managing Wordpress Sites With an Eye on Security9:01
Learn to securely manage WordPress sites at scale with automated updates, centralized dashboards, reliable backups, and security monitoring using backup buddy, sync, and managed WordPress.
Using a Wordpress Security Plugin7:22
Promote the use of an all-in-one wordpress security plugin to establish a baseline level of security, reduce risk, and simplify security for non-experts.
Wordpress Security Plugin Setup: Sucuri Auditing, Malware Scanner and Hardening11:23
Install and activate a WordPress security plugin with auditing and malware scanning, generate an API key, and harden sites by hiding WordPress version, securing uploads, and enabling alerts.

Managing Wordpress User Security Permissions6:01
Learn to manage WordPress users by assigning appropriate roles, enforce least privilege, disable unused accounts, and implement strong passwords and two-factor authentication for robust security.
Using SSL Across Your Entire Wordpress Site8:26
Learn how SSL/TLS encrypts WordPress traffic, using certificates and public/private keys authenticated by a certificate authority to boost security, trust, and PCI compliance.
Two Factor Authentication to Enhance Wordpress Security6:23
Adopt two-factor authentication in WordPress using time-based codes from apps like Google Authenticator or SMS, via plugins such as Duo or Themes Security Pro, to lock down authentication.

Blocking User Accounts With Wordfence5:06
Block WordPress admin logins with Wordfence, hardening access by blocking bad accounts and IP ranges to deter automated attacks and protect your site.
Live Demo - Blocking User Accounts With Wordfence7:11
Learn to block brute-force login attempts in WordPress with the Wordfence plugin, including locking out after five failures in 30 minutes and blocking invalid usernames and admin names.
Using Cloudflare to "Challenge" Users From Specific Countries4:00
Block high-risk countries by IP with Cloudflare, implement country-based challenges and captchas to deter script kiddies, and reinforce defenses alongside Wordfence blocking of common admin names.
Live Demo - Using Cloudflare to "Challenge" Users From Specific Countries2:16
Learn to use Cloudflare as a CDN and reverse proxy to filter by country, and to challenge visitors from Russia and Ukraine with a capture form to deter automated attacks.

Requirements

Basic access to the internet
You should have a basic understanding of Wordpress
Willingness to learn new concepts and ideas

Description

Over 2800 students staying ahead of the changes in Wordpress security!

Learn the Latest Wordpress Security Strategies and Concepts From a Leading Expert with Years of Real World, Hands On Experience.

Keep Your Wordpress Website Safe and Secure With Simple, Practical Techniques that Anyone Can Implement.

Every hour of every day 30,000 Wordpress sites are being attacked by people who want to either damage those sites or take control of them.

And the worse part is... 99% of all Wordpress Security incidents are entirely preventable.

How do you keep your Wordpress site secure?

In this course, I'll teach you the most effective things you can do to keep out the bad guys without having to become some kind of a security guru or spend tons of money for someone to do it for you.

If you're like most Wordpress website owners, security is a complete mystery. You want to keep your site secure, but your primary focus is on creating great content for your visitors.

You probably also have seen and read reports about internet security breaches that occur, but you probably think that your site is too small to have a serious problem.

The truth is, you couldn't be more wrong!

Wordpress powers just over 20% of all websites on the internet today and staggeringly, 70% of those site, 140m sites, have exposures that could make it easy for an unscrupulous individual to hack their site.

Modern security attacks aren't confined to defacing websites and stealing information, sophisticated groups of professional hackers are actively building up networks of millions of compromised websites. They collect these sites to use as large scale attacks and cause serious damage.

And if you're site is compromised, it could be contributing to this problem!

Having your site compromised could result in:

Loss of income
Damage to your reputation
Stolen data or information

That's not even considering the cost and effort required to clean up a security problem.

Wordpress Security doesn't have to be that hard. With just some simple understanding of the risks and steps that you can take to mitigate them, you can prevent over 99% of all potential attacks.

This course will help you put those numbers in your favour!

I am going to share with you my 10+ years of hard earned, battle tested experience in managing Wordpress sites so that you can start making your websites more secure in minutes right away.

But Wordpress and security in general are a moving feast and it is very hard to keep up to date on everything that's happening.

And that's something that I'm going to solve for you by regularly updating this course with new videos. As changes happen in the Wordpress landscape or something big occurs in the security world, I'll break it down for you in simple and easy to understand ways.

This course is backed by Udemy's 30 day guarantee and my personal promise that for just a small investment of your time, you'll be shocked at just how easy it is to rapidly improve your Wordpress site's overall security posture!

Every second you delay creates risk for you and helps tilt the odds in favour of your Wordpress site becoming one of the 30,000 sites that get attacked every hour, of every day.

Enroll now and put the odds back in your favour!

Who this course is for:

Anyone that runs a Wordpress site and wants to improve their site's security
Digital Marketing Agency staff that work on customer Wordpress sites
Bloggers and Content Marketers that need good security, but just want to learn to lock down their site quickly and effectively
This course is not designed for security experts or people looking to fix their already hacked sites

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