Title: Security measures
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Security measures

 *  [Rohini Lakshane](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rohini-lakshane/)
 * (@rohini-lakshane)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-measures/)
 * I’d like to know some security measures that should necessarily be implemented
   on self-hosted WordPress. I recently set up a website that has sensitive content
   and I expect that the website will receive attacks.

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 *  Moderator [keesiemeijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keesiemeijer/)
 * (@keesiemeijer)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-measures/#post-4197020)
 * Try it with a plugin:
    [http://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/)
 * See:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress)
 *  [leejosepho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leejosepho/)
 * (@leejosepho)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-measures/#post-4197150)
 * The article about Hardening WordPress is a great place to begin, and you will
   need FTP (or preferably SFTP) access and a local application such as FileZilla
   to make good use of it. To continue that process, I find Bulletproof Security
   very convenient for htaccess security, and it will let you easily add Custom 
   Code right at your Dashboard. After securing your site at its entrances, a plugin
   such as Wordfence Security can scan all WordPress files and warn you whenever
   any file no longer matches the WordPress repositories for core files, themes 
   and plugins. Then, Wordfence also has some useful firewall features to help deal
   with certain brute-force attempts and over-aggressive robots.
 *  Thread Starter [Rohini Lakshane](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rohini-lakshane/)
 * (@rohini-lakshane)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-measures/#post-4197354)
 * Thank you, keesiemeijer and leejosepho.

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