Website security basics for your first company site

Marketing sites get defaced, SEO-spam injected, and used as phishing hosts when neglected.

Basics that pay off

  • HTTPS everywhere with automatic renewal
  • Keep CMS, themes, and plugins updated
  • Remove unused plugins
  • Strong unique admin passwords + MFA if available
  • Limit login attempts / protect wp-admin style panels
  • Regular backups of files + database

Hosting accounts

Your DNS and hosting logins are crown jewels. Put them in the company vault with MFA. Domain expiration is a quiet disaster—calendar it.

Forms and spam

Contact forms attract bots. Use rate limiting or anti-spam, and don’t open yourself to storing sensitive customer messages unencrypted in a shared inbox forever.

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