Solid Academy Live

Why Hackers Target Small Businesses and What You Can Do About It

June 5, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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People often ask why hackers are targeting their seemingly unexciting small business websites. Yet, small business websites receive the brunt of malicious activity.

Hackers understand economies of scale. As such, smaller WordPress sites are constantly attacked by bots looking for signs of vulnerability. Fortunately, there are several easy ways to protect your site by making good security decisions.

In this livestream, WordPress Security expert Kathy Zant will review some of the most common methods hackers use to get into WordPress sites through some entertaining (and sometimes scary) stories.

You'll learn fundamental security principles to help you make good decisions to prevent intrusions, detect them, and recover from a security event if you are ever compromised.

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    People often ask why hackers are targeting their seemingly unexciting small business websites. Yet, small business websites receive the brunt of malicious activity.

    Hackers understand economies of scale. As such, smaller WordPress sites are constantly attacked by bots looking for signs of vulnerability. Fortunately, there are several easy ways to protect your site by making good security decisions.

    In this livestream, WordPress Security expert Kathy Zant will review some of the most common methods hackers use to get into WordPress sites through some entertaining (and sometimes scary) stories.

    You'll learn fundamental security principles to help you make good decisions to prevent intrusions, detect them, and recover from a security event if you are ever compromised.

    Presented by

    Kathy Zant

    Kathy Zant is an internationally recognized expert on security, marketing, and data-driven website development. She’s spoken at countless events worldwide, and is a frequent guest on numerous podcasts about WordPress and emerging technologies. She has been host of The Kadence Beat, Do the Woo, WPMotivate, and is a frequent co-host on This Week in WordPress. An Executive Producer of Open, the open-sourced documentary about the WordPress community, she is passionate about your stories and believes everyone’s voice deserves to be heard.

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