How To keep Your Blog Extra Secure

Posted on 16. Jan, 2010 by Ashwin in Blog Security

For all bloggers and blog owners who manage more than one blog and especially those who often have their blogs being accessed by many people – think about multi-user blogs, blogs with guest posts and blogs accessed by ghost-bloggers – have an immediate and highly critical need to keep their data safe and secure. Although, professional ghost writers, ghost bloggers do tend to take their business seriously, there is always risk involved and it is important that blog owners should take the final call when it comes to their blog security being compromised. Here are a few tips to ensure that your blog remains secure:

Have cryptic passwords and always keep changing them: Don’t use the same password for everything. I know that this is the easiest thing to do but did you ever stop to think that if one of your passwords is hacked into, almost all your other accounts can be compromised as well? Also, don’t do the obvious mistakes most people do when choosing their passwords like going for their names, birthdates, anniversary dates, etc. These can be compromised pretty easy. Flipping them backwards wouldn’t help either. Best password combinations are known to be long, cryptic with a complete set of alpha-numeric characters complete with special characters when allowed.

Invest in resources and know more about it all to be on top of it: I really liked these posts below since they go deep into wordpress security specifically and blog security in general. Alex Sysoef of Howtospotter – a well-known IT expert with years of experience poured into wordpress wrote out a recent post titled “Triple P of Total WordPress Security” that is a must read when it comes to wordpress security – do invest time and read-up his elaborate and systematic rendition on this subject. The post itself leads you to many more posts delving into the subject to give you a much broader and well-researched perspective. Here are some more posts I think you should read-up this weekend.

Learn it right from the horse’s mouth (created by wordpress staff and experts):Hardening WordPress in the Codex

A Common sense WordPress Security Primer

Noupe’s Guide to WordPress Security Tips and Hacks

Raise hell before you give access, do your due diligence: Don’t let people have access to your blogs. Read up on the different levels of permissions you can grant to multiple users of your blog. Password-protect everything else; have your guest bloggers, ghost bloggers and writing teams to sign-up Non-Disclosure agreements. Establish “work for hire” rules. Run it like an actual business with contracts in place for everything.

Do you know of more resources for wordpress security or blog security? Could you please share it with us? Has your blog ever been compromised?

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