Website Protection Plug-ins for WordPress
There are several important types of plug-ins that can be installed with WordPress to help secure a website or blog and protect its owner.
The plug-ins provide protection not only against automated attacks looking for common weaknesses, but also protection from humans linking directly to your content and backups just in case of an emergency.
Backups of a WordPress Database are Important for Two Reasons:
1. Emergencies & Posterity
By having a plug-in that backs up your data, you can rest assured that in a worst-case scenario your data can be recovered.
Regular backups are recommended by all data professionals because, while they are easy to create with the help of a plug-in, they remain the most powerful form of insurance against an emergency.
Besides peace of mind, backups have a side-effect.
Backups give you a historical record of what you have created.
These backups can be stored like snapshots of the past that can be viewed in the future for practical reasons or simply for nostalgic reasons.
2. Security
Additionally, in complex content systems like WordPress, there are a number of nuisance details that allow for automated attacks to vandalize a WordPress installation.
With a security plug-in, such as Bulletproof Security, potential methods for an attack are minimized and extra precautions are put into place.
Common methods for an attack such as cross-site scripting or cross-site request forgeries are made nearly impossible to exploit.
Likewise, with a security plug-in, a WordPress installation is checked for human errors.
User-configurable settings are analyzed to make sure a human error does not open the potential for a vulnerability.
Security plug-ins for WordPress will even check software running on the system outside of WordPress that could be used for an attack and eliminate those flaws.
Lastly, plug-ins can also protect against non-malicious attacks like hot linking.
If a person links to an image on your WordPress site instead of copying the image to their own webpage, your resources can be drained from a surge of traffic coming from their webpage.
By adding protections against hot linking, a surge of traffic to your resources will be detected and flood protections will be activated.
This way resources such as bandwidth can be guarded and potentially extra costs can be avoided.
With the right WordPress plug-ins, the great features of WordPress are enhanced making life easier and more secure.