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From the Author
Hi Amazonians :)
I guess my Preface to the book best sums up why you may need it, so here goes ...
Surf safe,
Olly.~
Most likely, today, some hacker tried to crack your WordPress site, its data and content. Maybe that was just a one-off from some bored kid. Just as likely, it was an automated hit, trying dozens of attacks to find a soft spot. Then again, quite likely it was both.
Whether you've been successfully hacked already, else want some insurance,
Welcome.
Let's be frank, up front. Web security has no silver bullet. The threatscape is simply too vast, the vulnerabilities too numerous. Your risk stretches from the keyboard at your fingertips, through and out the back of your local machine, buzzing around its network, maybe through your phone, into the router, hopping across your web surfing, into the remote server, buzzing around that network and jumping all over WordPress.
Gee whiz!
In other words, changing the
admin username, mashing a new password, and swapping the table prefix doesn't address much, important as these things are. They, and pretty much all the
Top Tips guides, combine limited security with a false sense of security.
Place your bets. Your site, whatever its hosting type, is only as safe as the weakest local-to-remote link, and then some. You can shore up WordPress, and you must, but if some Joe Hacker comes along, physically or technically, and grabs a password from your local machine, else bothers to profile you online, then, a few tools later, I'd back the black hat.
I'm sorry if that scares you. The intention is to emote you, to induce you to read not just
Chapter 6 (
10 Must-Do WordPress Tasks) plus maybe a bit of
7 (
Galvanizing WordPress), but to read the lot. I'll try to keep you awake. That being done, I'm also sorry to break this but that's not it. Security is like dogs and Christmas, it's a life-long deal. Fortunately, even though the hacks get better, your security management gets easier and, maybe this author's just a bit sad but, really, hacking the security war is quite good fun.
Sold?
Whether you are or not, read
Chapter 1 (
So What's the Risk?). Then see what you think.
From the Inside Flap
What this book coversChapter 1,
So What's the Risk? sets the scene by outlining the vulnerabilities of WordPress, both directly and indirectly, coupled with the threats seeking to manipulate those frailties and ultimately helping us to weigh up the risk to our sites and blogs.
Chapter 2,
Hack or Be Hacked practises our newly-gained theoretical awareness, giving us the hacker's mindset, the methodology, and the toolkit to flag vulnerabilities with WordPress, its server, its network, and contingent devices.
Chapter 3,
Securing the Local Box does just that, taking a potentially flaky working environment and reinforcing it with a best of breed anti-malware solution to give us a solid foundation from where to administer the site.
Chapter 4,
Surf Safe plugs us tentatively into the wall, and the web, throwing up the problems we face while pinning down the solutions we need to navigate securely this perilous minefield of malicious intent.
Chapter 5,
Login Lock-Down maps out the web's mass transport system, its protocols, directing their correct use for securely delivering data while armour-plating precious destinations such as the Dashboard, the server, and phpMyAdmin.
Chapter 6,
10 Must-Do WordPress Tasks gives the platform teeth by addressing common shortcomings with a heap of tips along the way to secure administration and, also for example, setting up an automated off-server backup system.
Chapter 7,
Galvanizing WordPress sets out numerous advanced techniques to defend against hackers, scrapers, and spammers while again advising on a range of admin issues such as a security-assistive local development strategy.
Chapter 8,
Containing Content addresses ours, explaining the law and our copyright options, showing how to benefit from managed reuse and setting out tools and strategies to defend, track, and regain control of copy and media.
Chapter 9,
Serving Up Security boots us into our site's security-interdependent hosting assessment, demystifying least privilege user and file protection while tracking malicious activity with the correct use of logs.
Chapter 10,
Solidifying Unmanaged takes due care to harden server and control panel access, to isolate web and server files, to protect PHP and databases, and to firewall the lot with an extensively tweaked network configuration.
Chapter 11,
Defense in Depth fortifies the site and server with kernel and memory patching, a web application firewall, simplified logs management and host-, network- and rootkit-based detection systems.
Appendix A,
Plugins for Paranoia is my personal pick of the protective plugin pack, with each and every one thoroughly tested and listed on merit.
Appendix B,
Don't Panic! Disaster Recovery sequentially orders a strategy to protect our site users, our reputation, and SEO before finding and rectifying problems to get the site back online in the quickest possible time.
Appendix C,
Security Policy provides a working document template setting out a framework strategy to pre-empt and future-proof your ongoing security concerns.
Appendix D,
Essential Reference pools security's big gun websites including blogs, forums, hacking tools, organizations and, oddly enough, WordPress resources.
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