What is Site Hardening?

Created by Aman Kedia, Modified on Fri, 21 Sep, 2018 at 7:47 PM by Aman Kedia

Site Hardening includes all the best industry standard security practices are used to:


  •  Prevent the execution of PHP files in folders that get new files created like your cache or uploads, which are vulnerable to malware attacks.
  •  Change the database prefix to help prevent SQL injections, when coupled with firewall protection.
  •  Disable the Files-Editor so that they cannot make changes to any of your site’s files, just in case someone does access the backend of your website.


Please take a look at our guide on how to enable site hardening.


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