Lucky for us, there are a lot of website security companies that are working around the clock to keep our sites safe and secure from security attacks. SiteLock<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 a Website Security Company<\/em> \u2014 is one of the prominent names when it comes to site security.<\/p>\n SiteLock has a bunch of different tools to make sure that your site security is airtight. TrueShield Web Application Firewall<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is one of these tools. It allows you to create a firewall<\/em> around your site so that it can scan the traffic coming towards your website and make sure that it is secure.<\/p>\n Today I am super excited to share how TrueShield can help keep your WordPress site safe and sound from the brutal attacks. So let’s get started \ud83e\udd18<\/p>\n For those who are not familiar with SiteLock<\/a>, then it is one of the fastest growing website security company.\u00a0Neill Feather<\/strong> \u2014 President & CEO SiteLock \u2014 and Scott Lovell<\/strong> started it back in 2008 as a secret project because both of them were working fulltime at the time. They kept it a secret for the next three years.<\/p>\n By 2013, the company had grown to 40 team members with over 980,000 customers<\/strong> with an office in Scottsdale, Arizona. In 2015, SiteLock started a dedicated website called The District<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to embrace and support the open source WordPress community. You can get to know more about their history over here<\/a>.<\/p>\n SiteLock<\/a> offers\u00a0cloud-based<\/strong> website\u00a0protection,\u00a0tools to find and fix threats<\/strong>, and prevent future attacks<\/strong> on your website. It currently protects over\u00a012 million websites<\/strong> around the globe.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n Folks at SiteLock actively participate and speak at WordCamps around the globe to support their love for the open source & WordPress. The efforts of Adam Warner<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 Open Source Community Manager \u2014 and Jamie Schmid<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 WordPress Evangelist are especially noteworthy in this regard.<\/p>\n TrueShield by SiteLock <\/a>is a web application firewall which deals with the incoming traffic of your website. It helps you to<\/p>\n TrueShield<\/a> is pretty easy to set up with your WordPress website. But before we get started, you need to add SiteLock to your site. You can read more about it in our previous SiteLock review<\/a>. Now all you need to do is to purchase a plan of TrueShield from SiteLock.<\/p>\n After you have purchased a plan for TrueShield, log-in to the dashboard<\/a><\/em> of SiteLock. Here, a pop-up will appear asking you to configure TrueShield for your WordPress website. Click on the Configure<\/strong> button to start the process.<\/p>\n You will be redirected to the TrueShield Wizard<\/strong> to configure the firewall. In the first step of this wizard, you need to add a TXT record<\/strong> to the\u00a0DNS records<\/strong> of your website so that TrueShield can\u00a0validate the ownership of your domain.<\/p>\n Once you have added the record, it will take a few hours to propagate so you will need to wait until the validation is complete. You also have the option of adding your SSL certificate<\/strong> to your website.<\/p>\n When the domain verification step is complete, you can move on to the next step. Now you need to modify your DNS routing records<\/strong> \u2014 A and CNAME to be precise \u2014 to route your traffic through SiteLock’s CDN.<\/p>\n If you don’t know to make these changes, click on the\u00a0Instructions<\/strong> button and it will download a PDF document which contains all the help you need to modify the said records. Once the edited DNS records propagate, a green check icon will appear before instructions, and then you can move to the last step.<\/p>\n Now that you have successfully configured TrueShield<\/a> for your website, you can also place a Trust Seal<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>on your site linking your website to SiteLock verification page. This step is not necessary though, and you can skip it\u00a0if you want.<\/p>\n But if you want to, then go ahead and click on Begin Trust Seal Installation<\/strong>\u00a0link to start the process. It will ask you a few details like language<\/em>, color<\/em>, size<\/em>, style<\/em>, and whether or not to display your contact information. In the end, it will give you a simple HTML snippet to place on your site.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc4a That’s about it. You have successfully configured TrueShield for your website in four simple steps.<\/em><\/p>\n TrueShield<\/strong><\/a>, web application firewall, comes with a lot of features. Let’s quickly take a peek at these.<\/p>\n OWASP \u2014 Open Web Application Security Project<\/strong> \u2014 has a list of top ten online threats\u00a0that can cause damage to your website. TrueShield, web application firewall, protects your site against these threats. Here is the list of these threats.<\/p>\n After configuring TrueShield<\/a> with your WordPress site, go to the SiteLock dashboard and click on the TrueShield icon to view the details of your website’s visitors. This page contains the following charts and graphs.<\/p>\n The web application firewall by TrueShield<\/a> can\u00a0protect customer information and website database by blocking access to malicious traffic<\/strong>. It analyzes the incoming traffic and makes sure that any suspicious request which is requesting sensitive information never makes it to the site’s server.<\/p>\n TrueShield<\/a> is programmed to detect commonly known hacks \u2014 for example, SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting,<\/strong> etc. \u2014 and prevent them from execution before they cause an issue for your website.<\/p>\n Hackers can access the files on your site by finding a backdoor into the server. TrueShield blocks backdoor access<\/strong> to your website files so that no one can view them insecurely. In this way, you can make sure that the code on your site’s files is safe and secure.<\/p>\n Website scrapping is another way of stealing the published content on your website. Scrappers use HTTP protocol to send automated requests to your site and get publicly available content in return. TrueShield does not let the scrappers access the content of your website.<\/p>\n Spammers are the ones who post unsolicited messages or comments on your website. All they need from you is to click on their stuff. But spamming is bad for business because you do not want irrelevant content on your site. TrueShield gives you the ability to block spam comments<\/strong> on your website.<\/p>\n TrueShield<\/a> is a premium product by SiteLock. Like SiteLock itself, there is no specific pricing for this product. You can get a custom quote from them \u2014 suited according to the needs of your website \u2014 by using the contact form on their site<\/a> or by calling their security experts at\u00a0888.878.2417<\/a>.<\/p>\n SiteLock<\/a> is also one of the generous partners of WPCouple<\/a>. They are offering an exclusive discount for the readers of WPCouple. You can use the coupon code\u00a0WPCOUPLE25<\/strong> to avail this discount. However, it must be redeemed over the phone because of some issues with the online purchase process at the moment.<\/p>\n\ud83d\udd30 TrueShield\u2122 by SiteLock\u00ae<\/h2>\n
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\ud83d\ude80 Getting Started with TrueShield\u2122<\/h2>\n
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\ud83d\udd25 Protection Against Top Ten Online Threats<\/h3>\n
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\ud83d\udcca Visitors Data Visualization<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\ud83d\udee1 Data Protection<\/h3>\n
\ud83d\udca5 Prevent Common Hacks<\/h3>\n
\ud83d\udd10 Block Backdoor Access<\/h3>\n
\ud83d\udcdc Protect Published Content<\/h3>\n
\ud83d\udeab Block Spam Comments<\/h3>\n
\ud83d\udcb0 Pricing and Membership Discount<\/h2>\n
\ud83d\ude4c Final Words<\/h2>\n