For many people, a website is a work of passion that gets countless hours of attention. For others, it is something they set and forget. However, if we all show our website more love by actively focusing on website improvements, we are rewarded with better site performance. With that in mind, let’s look at three top ways to show your website some love.
When you walk through the front doors at SiteLock, chances are a few words come to mind: Dynamic. Diverse. Empowering.
Between the open floor plan that drives collaboration, rousing games of ping pong, catered meals, and an upbeat environment, we pride ourselves on having a unique culture.
What makes our culture so special? At SiteLock we genuinely care about our employees, their success, and their happiness. Our core DNA is held together by The SiteLock Way, a shared set of values that define how we do business—which we live day in and day out.
SiteLock is hosting a free webinar and you’re invited! Join us LIVE on February 5, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. CST as we discuss how to determine and deter your website’s risk of a cyberattack. Learn from our SiteLock Product Expert, Ben Brown, as he uncovers who is at risk, what is at risk, how to determine your risk level and ways to lower your risk.
Is one of your New Year’s resolutions to learn more about securing your website? Maybe you want to dive into the world of malware and learn more about what it is and how it can be prevented. Or perhaps you want to understand what to do if a web host suspends your website due to a cyberattack. Whatever the reason, make 2019 the year you resolve to put cybersecurity first.
There is a lot of information on the web on this subject and with 155 SiteLock blogs published in 2018 alone–that’s a lot content to search through! We’ve made it easy for you learn more about cybersecurity and how to secure your website in 2019 by gathering our most popular blogs in one place. Join us as we countdown the top 10 most popular SiteLock blogs in 2018!
Code is what allows website owners to customize their websites and make it unique. However, sometimes malware can sneak into that code, resulting in a potentially harmful impact to unsuspecting users. Using today’s techniques, how would you distinguish which code is good and which code is bad? And what will that identification look like in the future? In this article, we will discuss current malware detection methods and the future of malware identification. Plus, provide insight into the role machine learning can play moving forward.
WordPress has been a rock among the shifting sands of website building platforms, with a fifteen-year history in the space. While other platforms have come and gone, split into multiple platforms, or struggled to even get noticed, WordPress has been a steady force that nearly one-third of the internet relies on. On December 6th, we saw the release of what is largely considered to be the biggest change to WordPress ever seen. WordPress 5.0 has moved away from the Classic Editor, and implemented the new editor, Gutenberg.
It’s been a whirlwind year of awesome WordCamps for us here at SiteLock. From East to West, and North to South, we reached all four corners of the United States. We even ventured over the border to Montreal and overseas to Serbia! To finish out an amazing year, we headed to the South one final time for one of our biggest events of the year—WordCamp US 2018 in Nashville, TN!
My name is Nick and I’m a Web Security Analyst with SiteLock. After completing my first year in the cybersecurity industry I wanted to share my perspective on how to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to break into this rapidly growing field.
One successful cyberattack can cost your business as much as $427 per minute from the downtime it takes to recover. Learn the shocking cost of a cyberattack and how you can prevent one in this infographic.
Ransomware is an attack that can trick you into unnecessarily paying money to cybercriminals while causing you to lose your computer files forever. For businesses, these attacks can also result in a data breach and exposure of sensitive information. Mitigating ransomware is all about preparation and prevention, so we’ll walk you through why this attack occurs, and how you can defend against it.
What is ransomware?
Ransomware happens so frequently that it has a definition in the Oxford English Dictionary: “A type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid.” Payment is often requested in bitcoin, the popular cryptocurrency, or in gift cards that can easily be sent to a “burner” email address. Unfortunately, if you’re hit by one ransomware attack, you’re likely to be hit again – a survey by Sophos found that not only did 54 percent of respondents experience ransomware, they were likely to experience two attacks or more.
