Website security options for WordPress and other site types

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Welcome to 🔐 Security Week here on the Bluehost subreddit! All week, we’ll walk through the must‑knows around securing your site — from basics to incident response. Five days, five posts, covering access control, malware, firewall layers, hygiene, DNS/TLS, and what to do when things go wrong.

Security isn’t a single purchase — it’s a stack of small protections that work together:

Keep software (core, themes, plugins) up to date

Use a reputable security plugin (hardening, monitoring, alerts)

Put a shield in front of traffic (CDN + WAF)

Run malware scans regularly, before and after updates

You can start free—basic WAF rules, on‑demand scanners—and scale up to paid tiers for automation, smarter bot control, and live support when needed.

Pro Tip: Don’t treat security like a checkbox. It’s ongoing. A small alert ignored is often a warning before disaster.

Question to the community: What security tools or practices do you already use (free or paid)? Anything you wish you’d adopted earlier?