Sucuri Setup Tutorial – WordPress Security Plugin

You’ll learn how to setup the Sucuri plugin for WordPress – one of the best security options you can find for WordPress.

Besiides the normal setup, you’ll learn the extra hardening setup to make get your WordPress site up to ‘best practice’ security standard. Without needing to be a cyber security expert.

As shown in the video, you’ll need to edit your .htaccess file, either through your hosting control panel file manager, or by using ftp or sftp to edit the files in your WordPress install.

In our example, we added the following code to our .htaccess file:

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# Sucuri Recommendations
Header set X-Content-Type-Options nosniff
Header set X-XSS-Protection “1; mode=block”

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Adding the above code will mean your headers now contain the following:
Security Headers – X-XSS-Protection
Security Headers – X-Content-Type: nosniff

This helps make your site less vulnerable to some common attacks.

We also showed how you can use ‘HTTP Strict Transport Security’ (HSTS) to improve the encryption of your site data.
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