{"id":1670,"date":"2012-08-22T15:43:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T21:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.albuquerque.wordcamp.org\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2012-08-22T15:43:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T21:43:14","slug":"hide-the-keys-to-the-castle-tips-and-tricks-to-harden-and-obfuscate-self-hosted-wordpress-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albuquerque.wordcamp.org\/2012\/hide-the-keys-to-the-castle-tips-and-tricks-to-harden-and-obfuscate-self-hosted-wordpress-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Hide The Keys To The Castle: Tips and Tricks to Harden and Obfuscate Self-Hosted WordPress Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest post by WordCamp Speaker <strong>Robert DeYoung<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>WordPress is a high quality, secure content management system and you&#8217;re using it for your castle (er uh&#8230;website). Good start! You keep it up-to-date with each new release. Even better! You&#8217;re using a reliable web host with an up-to-date LAMP bundle (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) or equivalent and good maintenance procedures. Smart choice!<\/p>\n<p>But, hackers are always seeking new attack vectors. LAMP and WordPress are not immune. Plugins and custom function code introduce additional opportunities to attack a site. And, no one has the resources to make a site 100% secure.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s a person to do? First, don&#8217;t get upset or take it personally! Most sites are not a specific target. Hackers scour the Web for vulnerable sites to release their damaging payloads, be it a clandestine site embedded within your site, attempts to retrieve your users&#8217; personal information or other nefarious objectives.<\/p>\n<p>This session will give you some tools to build your castle walls a little higher and thicker and hide those keys well enough to encourage a hacker to look for an easier target. In some cases, you may even be protected if your site has a well-known vulnerability that you haven&#8217;t had time to patch with an update.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2012.albuquerque.wordcamp.org\/session\/hide-the-keys-to-the-castle-tips-and-tricks-to-harden-and-obfuscate-self-hosted-wordpress-sites\/\">WordCamp Session<\/a>\u00bb | <a href=\"https:\/\/2012.albuquerque.wordcamp.org\/speakers\/#robert-de-young\">Speaker Profile<\/a>\u00bb | <a href=\"http:\/\/bluelotusworks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Speaker Website<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest post by WordCamp Speaker Robert DeYoung WordPress is a high quality, secure content management system and you&#8217;re using it for your castle (er uh&#8230;website). Good start! You keep it up-to-date with each new release. Even better! 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