Having just completed your new website project, it’s easy, and natural, to get complacent. With this new website in your arsenal, moving on with your business with peace of mind seems like it should be a given, but it often isn’t. The Internet is a bit like the Wild West, so taking all the website security precautions that you can is the best way to protect your new site from unauthorized intruders. Whenever a client approaches us with a web design project, website security is often at the top of their list of concerns. Experience and customer service intuition have helped us procure a multifaceted website security approach, which allows our clients to completely trust us to handle the protection of their new site.

WordPress Website Security

All KIMBO websites are customized WordPress creations, so our web development team has cultivated a handful of custom security tactics to ensure website security in areas often overlooked by other WordPress developers. The first of these is to scramble the site’s source code. What this helps to achieve is generating a sense of confusion for potential intruders. When they look at the source code of your new site, they won’t be able to tell that it was created with WordPress. In fact, they won’t even recognize the code as any real programming language, because it won’t be one. This air of mystery serves to dispel hacking attempts before they even begin.

Another WordPress website security tactic we use is to make the WordPress backend entirely inaccessible to unauthorized users. WordPress websites coming ‘straight out of the box’ allow any minimally knowledgeable coder to gain online access to the login page for your WordPress backend. You are then at the mercy of their hacking skills. We prevent this by redirecting these access attempts to the website’s home page, unless you are an authorized user. This is a crucial step in WordPress website security, but it often goes overlooked, leaving your site vulnerable.

Website Security Add-ons

The next step we take to protect your new website is through utilizing external website security resources. We create a lot of membership websites, and one of the main concerns for these projects is confidentiality. Members want reassurance that their personal information won’t be made available to outsiders. To alleviate these fears, we install SSL Certificate on any of our sites that need it. This ensures that all information being sent to and from the site is encrypted, keeping personal data safe.

As part of our commitment to website security, we prefer to host our clients’ sites once we have finished developing them. Hosting internally means that our expert web developers can monitor activity on the site, so that anything suspicious can be handled immediately. We utilize 24×7 web monitoring for our hosting, which sends our web developer text alerts in the event that the site goes offline, or someone is trying to access the site illicitly. This is especially important in the case of ‘brute force’ attacks, where intruders attempt to gain access by trying every password possibility. By hosting internally, we instantly know when this is happening, and can blacklist that user.

Website Security Maintenance

Going hand in hand with our website security measures is our website maintenance program, which acts like insurance for your brand new website. By committing to a thoughtful maintenance approach, your site will retain its integrity and effectiveness longer, which means fewer redesigns, and more savings. As part of our maintenance program, we will ensure that the WordPress framework, and all plugins and licensing agreements, are always updated to the latest version. This ensures all security and functionality performs as expected, and none of your new site falls out of order. We also make comprehensive backups of your site, in case of emergency, so that the site can be back online as soon as possible. Finally, our technical support gives our website maintenance clients 9-5 access directly to the developer who created their website, should they have any urgent website security questions or issues.

By combining all of these website security techniques, we go the extra mile to help our clients gain the online peace of mind they desire.