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How Does SSP Fortress Make WordPress Websites ‘Unhackable’?
We host the backend of your website on a separate private server that’s invisible to the public internet. This makes it impossible for hackers to gain acess to your website through common WordPress vulnerabilities, effectively making your website ‘unhackable’.
What is The Advantage of ‘Unhackable’ Site Architecture?
Google, Go-Daddy, Bing, Hotmail and other backbone providers now have a zero tolerance for hacked websites. As soon as they detect malware, they cut off services to your domain. This can lead to your domain appearing on public databases called blacklists. If this happens, the consequences can be devastating. Your domain, email, and other cloud applications stop working, one after another, in rapid succession. Any Investment you’ve made in advertising & marketing is wasted and your search engine rankings plumet.
Protect The Investment in Your Brand.
Your clients expect your website to be safe. In fact, you owe them a duty of care to keep it that way. Just one security failure can see years of investment in your brand undone in weeks, as the reputational damage drives clients into the arms of your competitors
Having your website hidden behind a big, red “get me out of here” warning, shown to all your current and potential customers.
A hacked site creates a lack of trust. Customers flee to your competition. Think Medibank, Optus and Latitude Finance. Who’d want to be a brand leader under that spotlight?
This now happens by default when your domain is blacklisted.
Junk or blocked email means clients don’t see your proposals & invoices.
Blocked domains cannot accept online payments.
Blocked domains cannot run core operational applications hosted on your domain.
A lack of trust in your domain affects your search engine rankings and multiple breaches can mean permanent damage to your ability to rank on page 1.
Your rankings & online marketing are suspended and it can be an onerous process getting them re-instated.
All of your online marketing campaigns suspended or cancelled.
In some Territories (for example Australia), it can even result in your domain name being cancelled.
If your website has been hacked we can repair or restore your website for you.
After scanning we identify and fix all of your sites vulnerabilities and make sure it is as secure as possible.
We then install your website in our secure architecture environment and manage everything required to keep it secure. You can relax about security risks and focus on your core business.
As the recent Optus, Medibank and Latitude Finance breaches demonstrate, it’s never been easier for cyber criminals to hack websites, In fact, according to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, “updating your Cyber security is just as important as having a lock on the front door.”
It Gets Blacklisted! Backbone internet service providers (search engines, email, web hosts etc.) are now legally required to cut off all their services to your domain if they find malware on it. They do this for two reasons:
1. To protect innocent members of the public from the impacts of malicious code.
2. To protect themselves from legal liability issues, brand damage and very large fines.
In todays AI powered internet, unless businesses ramp up their online security, its only a matter of time until their domain name gets blacklisted. This sounds alarmist, but the reality is, in the new era of AI, businesses face unprecedented and relentless cyber-attack. And the higher your site ranks in search engines, the more valuable it is to hackers.
The impacts of being hacked are also more severe than ever. When a website or email address is identified as having malware on it, authorities share the details on publicly available databases commonly known as blacklists. That means, when one provider finds you are hacked, everyone finds out very quickly, and all your online services start failing one-by-one, in rapid succession.
If you’d like, we can scan your site for all known vulnerabilities and give you the opportunity to try one of our plans as part of our 90% off trial.
But for most businesses, the first you will know about being hacked is when you try to follow up a customer proposal or invoice via email, only to find out that the client didn’t receive it! Or you check your website only to find it hidden behind a bold red ‘get me out of here’ browser screen. If this happens, because of the nature of blacklists, other critical online service providers will quickly find out that your site has been comprimised, and your online applications can start failing, one-by-one, in rapid succession. When this happens any money you saved on cheap hosting starts to look very expensive!
Don’t risk leaving the door unlocked for cyber criminals. Talk to us now about your online security.
As Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in the in the cyber security think tank he hosted in March 2023, (see video above) most businesses are off the pace and need to upgrade their online security. We can help with that. We are an Australian based cyber security firm. Our plugins are written here in Australia and our services include website security maintenance on secure hosts. And we guarantee our services. For instance, in our SSP Fortress program, if any of our customers are hacked through a failing of our technology, we not only fix your site, we will refund up to two years worth of fees, just to compensate for the inconvenience. But so far no one we serve has ever had to be refunded.
Up until now, shared hosting on a single IP has been common place, especially for SME’s. The thinking behind this choice is something like this. “Why would I pay more for web hosting when I can get it cheaper?” There are a number of reasons why you might, but in the new AI powered internet, protection against the impacts of being hacked is among the most important.
Most people don’t realise this, but if a website is on shared hosting (where 50 to 100 sites share the same IP address), it only takes one site on that shared IP to be hacked and all the businesses sharing that IP address can be implicated as ‘unsafe,’ and blacklisted, by virtue of their association with a known hacked IP.
It doesn’t matter if your site is completely innocent. Everyone on the IP address is assumed to be compromised, so everyone gets affected.
All of these issues are so serious in the impact they can have on your operations, brand and income, they need to be repaired on the fly, under pressure. Isn’t running a business challenging enough? Why would any credible business expose themselves to the risk of revenue loss, reputational damage, and the failure of core operational applications like email, online payments, when they can be eliminated via our cost effective solution?
Suitable for any WordPress site. Here’s how the service works:
Suitable for B2B sites not doing e-commerce. Everything in SSP Sentinel plus:
SSP Vigilance is an Enterprise Level Linux, Drupal & WordPress proactive vulnerability scanning & reporting system.
Compatible with Drupal and WordPress websites, as well as Linux Ubuntu and CentOs servers
Integrated into your CI/CD pipeline hosted on your MS Azure DevOps instance, or on your Linux servers as a self-hosted agent.
Automate security scanning process ensures vulnerabilities are identified early in the development cycle.
Vulnerability information is downloaded every time a build is executed,
This report is securely shared to authorised parties via email.
No data is recorded or kept, providing a truly private and secure solution.
This approach ensures that your security is not compromised by third-party services and guarantees that your data stays within your own network.
Periodic scans daily, every 3 days or every 6 hours, depending on plan
From 1 to 4 Domains, depending on the plan
Restore and clean service available
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