WordPress security for businesses where downtime costs too much.
Hardening, monitoring, malware removal, incident response – delivered by senior engineers, not plugin defaults.
Automated tools only alert you once something has already happened. We work on preventing the incident from happening in the first place, and respond fast when one does occur. Three ways to engage: a one-off hardening sprint, ongoing managed security, or post-incident response. We pick the one that fits your situation.
WHAT WE SECURE
Five areas. One outcome: a system that doesn’t fail under attack.
WordPress security as a service, not a plugin install. Senior engineers do the actual work, document what changed, and verify each fix.
01
Hardening
We eliminate weak points before anyone has a chance to use them. Server configuration review, file permissions, login protection, plugin and theme updates, removed default vulnerabilities left over from the install.
The result: attackers don’t waste time trying. They move on to easier targets.
02
Monitoring and detection
Real-time alerts on file changes, suspicious login attempts, vulnerability disclosures affecting your stack. Logs that tell you what happened, when, and why.
The result: you find out about a problem from us, not from a customer or Google’s safe-browsing warning.
03
Incident response
When something does happen, we respond. Triage, malware containment, clean restore, root-cause analysis, post-incident report.
The result: time to recovery measured in hours, not days. Customer trust preserved.
04
Malware removal
Active malware on a production site. We get on it. Forensic identification of the entry point, full cleanup of the codebase and database, hardening to prevent reinfection, validation of integrity.
The result: site clean, attack vector closed, no follow-up surprises.
05
Compliance preparation
GDPR / ISO / PCI DSS audit deadline approaching, board-level questions about data risk. We prepare technical documentation that satisfies external auditors and gives the security team something defensible to show the regulator.
The result: you walk into the audit with answers, not questions.
Need a formal audit report?
A WordPress security audit (one-off assessment with documented findings, suitable for external review or board reporting) is part of WordPress audits →.
WHO NEEDS THIS
Familiar situations we know how to handle.
Post-incident recovery or external pressure
Something happened: a breach, a malware infection, a customer complaint that turned out to be a real compromise. Or there’s external pressure – a GDPR / ISO / PCI DSS audit deadline, board questions about data risk after a competitor’s incident. Either way, you need a clean response and defensible documentation.
We triage, contain, clean, document. You walk away with a stable system and a written record of what happened and what was done.
High-profile target site
eCommerce stores during peak season, fintech and finance platforms, public-facing brands with media exposure, sites handling regulated personal data. The cost of an incident isn’t just downtime. It’s a hit to customer trust that takes years to rebuild.
We harden the architecture, set up monitoring that catches problems early, and stand by for incident response when something does get through.
Post-audit remediation
You’ve had an audit (ours or someone else’s). The report identified vulnerabilities or hardening gaps. Now you need someone to actually close them, with verification that the fixes hold.
We take the audit findings, prioritize by exploitability, execute the remediation, and verify each fix. The audit report becomes a closed-loop document, not a list of problems waiting to be addressed.
METHODOLOGY
How a WordPress security engagement actually works.
STEP 01
Triage and scoping
Initial conversation about the situation. Is this an active incident, planned hardening, or post-audit follow-up? Scope, priorities, and timeline determined upfront.
STEP 02
Read-only access and assessment
Code repository, hosting, monitoring, logs. Read-only first. We assess current state, identify gaps, and understand the existing security posture before we change anything.
STEP 03
Hardening or cleanup
Depending on the engagement: configuration changes, file permissions, login protection, malware removal, vulnerability patching. Each change documented, each change reversible.
STEP 04
Verification
We verify each fix against attack surface. Re-scan, re-test, confirm. The work isn’t done when changes are deployed. It’s done when verification confirms the issue is closed.
STEP 05
Documentation and handoff
Written record of what we found, what we did, what’s still open, what to monitor. Your team can extend the work without coming back to us. If you want us to stay (ongoing managed security or Growth & Care), we move into that engagement directly.
WHAT YOU GET
Concrete deliverables you can act on, share, or archive.
Documented snapshot of changes made: configuration settings before and after, files modified, plugins updated, accounts cleaned. Includes rationale for each change so your team can review and adjust.
Configured alerts, log aggregation, baseline metrics. Your team gets access to the monitoring dashboard and an alerting playbook for what to do when alerts fire.
Documented response steps for the most likely incident scenarios on your site. Who to call, what to capture, what to disable, how to communicate with customers. Prepared in advance, not improvised in the moment.
Forensic report of the malware found, entry point identified, full cleanup confirmed. Includes attestation suitable for sharing with auditors, partners, or insurance.
Continued monitoring, monthly review, defined response times. Available as a standalone retainer or as part of Growth & Care.
After the engagement
Continued protection via Growth & Care, or formal documentation via WordPress audits when you need a board-level report or compliance evidence.
Questions about WordPress security.
Plugins watch and alert. We do the work. Wordfence will tell you a plugin has a known vulnerability. We patch it, test the fix, and confirm there’s no regression. A plugin can flag a brute-force attempt. We investigate whether it’s part of a larger campaign and harden against the actual attack pattern. Plugins are useful tools and we configure them too. But they’re not a replacement for a senior engineer engaged with your specific stack.
Depends on the engagement type. For active incident response, we triage within agreed business hours and contain as quickly as the situation allows. For ongoing managed security, response times are defined in the SLA we agree on. For one-off hardening sprints, the timeline is the project plan.
Senior engineers on our team. The same people who run architecture audits and rescue missions. Not contractors, not juniors triaged through a ticket queue. You stay in direct contact with the people actually engaged with your project.
Yes. We work with whatever hosting provider you have. We need read-only access during assessment and write access only for the changes we agree on. We don’t require migration to a specific host.
It depends on the threat model and the stakes. A one-off hardening sprint is enough if the system is well-architected and your team can maintain it. Ongoing managed security makes sense for high-traffic sites, regulated data, or organizations without internal security capacity. We’re honest about which one fits. We don’t sell ongoing service to clients who don’t need it.