Hardening WordPress

HTL Rennweg

Description

Common forms of vulnerabilities, and the things you can do to help keep your WordPress installation secure.

Goals

I know

• what limiting access means
• what containment is
• what backup and recovery are
• what trusted sources means
• which kind of risk my own computer imposes
• how I get informed about vulnerabilities in WordPress
• why I should use SFTP when using FTP
• what a file permission scheme is and where I can read up on a feasible file permission scheme for WordPress
• what database security means
• what security through obscurity means
• what monitoring is

I can

• keep my own computer updated and what I can do to prevent viruses/malware
• explain possible network vulnerabilities
• report a security issue
• set file permissions for my WordPress installation
• secure wp-admin
• secure wp-includes
• secure wp-config.php
• disable file editing
• access the WordPress log files

Maintainer

Franz Stimpfl HTL Rennweg