WordPress Security

Not inherently. The core team ships security fixes fast and has done so for years, which is more than you can say for the average plugin author. Breaches almost always start in the extras instead: an abandoned plugin here, a password recycled from another service there, a login page left wide open. Run with basic discipline and patched dependencies, and WordPress holds the line as well as any modern platform.

Placement is the whole difference. A WAF guards the perimeter, filtering hostile requests at the network edge so the dangerous ones are dropped before WordPress is ever asked to parse them. A security plugin works from inside the very application it is meant to defend, which means the moment WordPress itself is breached, the plugin is already running on compromised ground and cannot be trusted to hold.

For anything that closes a security hole, the answer is immediately, the same day the fix is published. Feature and maintenance updates can queue for a staging pass first, but a week is the longest any of them should sit before reaching production. Our pipeline runs both tracks automatically, so the urgent patches go out at once and the rest never quietly fall off anyone's list.

Work starts inside the SLA window, which in practice means under 30 minutes from the alert. We shut the attacker out, roll the site back to the last clean backup, and then comb the logs until we know precisely which vulnerability was used and how it was reached. That hole gets sealed for good, and the same route never works a second time. You get a written account afterwards.

Yes. Brute force against wp-login.php remains the single most common way into WordPress, and the bots driving it will happily grind through leaked password lists for months on end without tiring. A second factor closes that route entirely, because even a correct password is useless on its own. The strength of the password stops being the thing standing between an attacker and your admin panel.

There is no separate security line item. It comes bundled with our maintenance plan, which starts at NOK 3,000 per month and already includes the WAF, automated updates, round-the-clock monitoring, encrypted backups and a guaranteed incident response time. Nothing on that list is sold as an upgrade later. Every tier and exactly what it covers is laid out in full on our pricing page.

Yes, and hacked sites land on our desk regularly. The first pass strips out the malware and every backdoor the attacker left behind, including the quiet ones planted for a return visit. After that the install is hardened from the bottom up, and a WAF goes in front of the server where one should have been all along. Our migration page walks through the full process step by step.

Yes. Storage stays inside the EU and every byte of traffic is encrypted in transit. Admin actions leave a logged trail showing who did what and when, and the whole arrangement is backed by a signed data processing agreement. That is exactly the paperwork Datatilsynet expects when an audit lands, and having it ready in advance turns a request that would otherwise mean a scramble into a short, calm exercise.