Website Security Monitoring

We fingerprint your web root and compare it continuously. When a file changes, appears or disappears without a corresponding deployment, that is a strong early signal of a compromise, and it usually shows up long before any visible symptom.

Regular scanning looks for injected code, malicious redirects and the hidden spam pages that only render for search engines. In parallel we check whether your domain has appeared on Google Safe Browsing or vendor blacklists, so you hear it from us and not from a drop in traffic.

We track the versions of your CMS core, plugins, themes and key libraries against known-vulnerability feeds. The moment a component you run picks up a serious advisory, you get told, because that window between disclosure and patch is when automated attackers strike.

Why version tracking matters

In the majority of the compromises we later clean up, the entry point was a component with a known, published vulnerability that simply had not been updated. Monitoring the patch status of what you run turns that from a silent risk into a prompt to act.

Uptime checks catch outages and defacement quickly. Certificate monitoring warns you before TLS expires and breaks the site or trust in it. DNS monitoring flags unexpected record changes, which can be the first sign of a domain hijack or a redirect attack.

We start by capturing what “normal” looks like for your site: its files, its users, its traffic shape, its certificates. Everything after that is measured against this baseline, which is what lets us tell a routine deployment apart from an intrusion.

Raw alerts are triaged by an engineer before they reach you. A plugin update you made is not an incident; the same file changing at midnight from an unknown source is. This filtering is the difference between alerts you trust and alerts you learn to ignore.

When something looks like a real compromise, it goes straight to our 24/7 incident response team, who can contain it and begin cleanup rather than just emailing you a warning. Detection without a response plan only tells you how bad it got.

Because the same team monitors and responds, there is no cold handover to a stranger when something happens. The people who know your site’s baseline are the ones who contain the incident, which shaves hours off the response.

For sites where downtime is expensive, monitoring plus a response commitment works like a retainer: the watching is continuous and the reaction is pre-agreed, so a 2am compromise gets handled at 2am, not at the start of the next business day. For an online shop or a booking platform, the hours saved usually pay for the plan many times over in a single incident.

ISO 27001 Annex A covers event logging and monitoring, and PCI DSS requires both logging and file-integrity monitoring for systems in scope, under requirements 10 and 11.5. Our monitoring records and reports are structured to evidence those controls.

GDPR expects appropriate technical measures to protect personal data and to detect breaches promptly, since notification timelines start when you become aware. Monitoring is a large part of being able to say when awareness began, and to show you were watching.

A site gets injected with hidden pages that only render for search-engine crawlers, so the owner browsing normally sees nothing wrong. Ranking slides for months, blamed on an algorithm change, until traffic collapses. File-integrity monitoring flags the injected files on day one, before Google ever indexes the spam.

A plugin that was fine at launch picks up a critical advisory a few months later. On an unwatched site nobody connects the dots, and it becomes the entry point for a compromise. Version tracking turns that advisory into an alert the day it lands, so you update before the automated exploitation reaches you.

Less dramatic but surprisingly common: a TLS certificate lapses, browsers throw warnings, and conversions drop until someone notices. Certificate monitoring warns you well before expiry, so it never becomes a visible outage in the first place.

An attacker who gets a foothold often creates a fresh administrator account to keep access even after a password change. That account can sit unused for weeks, waiting. Alerting on new privileged users surfaces it immediately, while it is still just a warning and not yet a breach.