Website security and hardening.

Most sites that get compromised are not targeted. They are found by automated scanners looking for a known vulnerability in an outdated component, and exploited without a human involved until much later. That is good news: the same automation that finds you is defeated by basic, boring discipline done consistently.

What’s included

• Vulnerability assessment of application and server
• Malware and backdoor cleanup after a compromise
• Fixing SQL injection, XSS, CSRF and insecure file uploads
• Authentication and session hardening
• Server hardening: firewall, SSH, permissions, service exposure
• TLS configuration, secure headers and CSP
• Backup strategy with tested restores

Cleanup is not just deleting files

After a compromise, removing the visible malware is the easy part. The attacker almost certainly left a way back — a modified core file, an extra admin account, a scheduled task, a web shell with an innocuous name. A proper cleanup means finding the entry point, closing it, auditing for persistence, and rotating every credential that could have been exposed.

The boring things that actually matter

Keep components updated. Do not run services you do not need. Use strong, unique credentials. Take backups and test that they restore. Restrict file permissions. Almost every compromise I have investigated would have been prevented by one of these.

Backups are not backups until restored

An untested backup is a hope. I verify that restores actually work, that they are recent enough to be useful, and that they are stored somewhere an attacker who owns your server cannot also encrypt or delete.