CMS Security Services

You add a plugin for a campaign, a developer installs a tool and forgets it, a theme update ships new code. Each change alters what an attacker can reach. Managed protection means someone is tracking that surface as it shifts, rather than assuming the site is the same as the day it launched.

The sites we recover were rarely singled out. They were running a vulnerable version of a popular plugin when a mass-scanning bot came through. Continuous patching, a firewall and login protection remove you from that pool of easy hits, which is where the overwhelming majority of CMS attacks land. Attackers chase the cheapest possible win, so the goal of managed protection is simply to make your site more expensive to break than the thousands of unprotected ones sitting next to it. You do not need to be impregnable. You need to be a worse deal for the bot than the site next door.

We disable in-dashboard file editing so a stolen login cannot be turned straight into code execution, restrict or protect the admin area, enforce strong password and role policies, and remove unused administrator accounts that are just extra keys under the mat. Two-factor authentication goes on every privileged account, because a reused password is the single most common way admin access is lost.

In WordPress that means controlling XML-RPC, taming an over-exposed REST API, and blocking user-enumeration tricks that hand attackers a list of valid usernames to attack. On Joomla, Drupal and Magento the specifics differ, but the principle is the same: turn off what you do not use, and protect what you do.

Configuration and file permissions

We secure the configuration file that holds your database credentials, correct file and directory permissions so uploads cannot be executed as code, and add security headers and a content-security policy to shrink the impact of any injection that does get through.

Users, roles and stale accounts

Old editor accounts from a former agency, a developer login nobody revoked, a client given administrator when they only needed to publish posts: each is a live risk. We review who has access to what, right-size roles to the least privilege each person actually needs, and close the dormant accounts that quietly accumulate on every long-running site. Fewer keys mean fewer ways in.

We take a fingerprint of your site’s files and compare against it continuously. When a file changes that no legitimate update or edit explains, that is a signal worth acting on, and it is how injected backdoors and defacements are caught early instead of after they have done their work.

The web application firewall does more than block requests. It shows us the brute-force attempts, the injection probes and the bots hammering your login, so protection is tuned to what is actually being thrown at your site rather than a generic ruleset.

Core, plugins, themes and extensions are updated on a schedule, tested on staging so a release does not break your checkout or layout, and rolled back cleanly if something misbehaves. Abandoned components that no longer receive security fixes are flagged and replaced before they become the weak link.

Off-site, encrypted backups run on a schedule, and we periodically restore one to confirm it works. An untested backup is a hope, not a recovery plan, and the moment you need it is the worst time to discover it was incomplete.

Vulnerable and abandoned plugins are the number one entry point, followed by weak or reused admin passwords and an exposed XML-RPC endpoint used for brute-force amplification. We prune the plugin estate, enforce 2FA, and control the endpoints attackers abuse for enumeration and login attacks.

These platforms have had serious remote-code-execution flaws in the past that were exploited en masse within days of disclosure. Staying current is not optional here. We keep core and extensions patched, remove unused modules, and lock down the administrator paths that get probed automatically.

Commerce platforms attract a specific and nasty threat: card-skimming code injected into the checkout to steal payment details silently. That is exactly what file-integrity monitoring is built to catch, alongside keeping the store patched against the flaws these skimmers use to get in. For any site touching payment data, this is where the real risk lives.

The access control, logging, patching and firewall work maps to ISO 27001 controls, to PCI DSS 4.0 requirements for sites that touch cardholder data, and to the technical measures GDPR expects for protecting personal data. Our monthly reporting is written so it can serve as evidence for those reviews rather than leaving you to reconstruct what was done.