Stone River Elearning – WordPress Security Secure Your Site Against Hackers!

Stone River Elearning – WordPress Security Secure Your Site Against Hackers!The Complete WordPress Security Course. From The Most Fundamental To The Most Advanced Up-To-Date Security HacksCourse DescriptionFact: 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, a 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 passwordout of date softwareI show how to use secure and unguessable passwords that are different on every site.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 firewallscan your site everyday for known vulnerabilities and changes in the WordPress codeblock malicious IPs and requestsand much moreI 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. My name’s Rob Cubbon and I have run a web and graphic design business for over a decade. I have built countless WordPress websites for myself and others.However, I have been hacked!This was a chastening experience. Not only was this attach to one of my websites extremely costly in terms of money and time, but I was also shocked at my ignorance of many website security procedures.Online security, website security, and WordPress security are now topics I take extremely seriously. I want to prevent other people from having a similarly terrible experience.GoalsWhat will you learn in this course:Find out the most common ways a WordPress website can get hacked and guard against them easily, cheaply and quicklySet up an automated strategy of scanning and backing-up so you are alerted to possible vulnerabilities, and so you can easily and quickly patch or restore your site if disaster strikesLearn how to secure and “lock-down” a WordPress website from hackers using a variety of technical tweaksFollow step-by-step instructions to install the free Wordfence Security plug-inSet up a powerful protective firewall on the cloudBlock malicious IPs and block all attempted “brute-force” attacksFind out easy ways to update all software on the websites, as well as ensuring it stays up-to-dateLearn the best practices of username and password managementPrerequisitesWhat are the prerequisites for this course?Only basic computer skillsCurriculumCheck out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the courseIntroduction7 LecturesIntroductionPreview03:49Introduction to Username & password sectionPreview01:01Make your usernames hard to guess05:04More great advice on password security05:35Improving the Security of the WordPress Admin User11:03An easy way to change your username with Username Changer plugin03:20How to Enable 2 Step Authentication to your WordPress Login – edited04:27Keeping Software Up-to-Date and Understanding Basic “Webroot Hygiene”7 LecturesIntroduction to software updating sectionPreview01:17How To Make Sure You’re Running Up To Date Software07:49Deleting unnecessary plugins through the wordpress backendPreview02:01Deleting unnecessary themes through the wordpress backend01:56Webroot Hygiene And Accessing Sites Files11:48Checking Permissions03:01Disable Directory Listing03:22Wordfence security plugin7 LecturesIntroduction to the Wordfence Security Plugin00:38Why the Wordfence Security Plugin is so awesomePreview04:58Activating Wordfence Security Plugin for WordPress Initial Essential Steps13:54Checking up on Wordfence 24 hour later05:38Making sure the firewall is enabled in Wordfence and more about the plugin05:53Further Tweaks To Wordfence Security Plugin03:03What to do if you get locked out of WordPress by Wordfence Security Plugin03:57Backing Up5 LecturesIntroduction to backing up00:45An Introduction to Backing-up and Restoring WordPress Websites04:47Recommended WordPress Plug-ins for Backing-up and Restoring WordPress Sites03:33Sheduling Database and File Backups to the Cloud using a free pluginPreview06:33How to Restore a WordPress Website from a Backup07:59Extra WordPress Security Tasks – Really Lock Down Your Site7 LecturesIntroduction to the technical section00:57Setting up wordpress manually04:33Get the Secure padlock on an SSL website08:58How to disable error reporting in WordPress04:50Disable File Editing in the WordPress Dashboard01:10Protecting WP-Includes Folder and WP-Config.php02:23Prevent PHP Execution in the Uploads Directory and Reminder to Update Plugins, Themes, and Software04:22Conclusion1 LecturesConclusion00:28Instructor DetailsStone River eLearningAt Stone River eLearning, technology is all we teach. 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