How to protect your site from competitors?

Question

Burglary protection

Hello, dear site visitors!

There is such question:
What threats from competitors for the owner of a site can be?
And how can you protect yourself from these threats as much as possible?
Now there is a site on wordpress.

I'd be happy to hear any advice.

Answer 1

Usually, none of which you need to worry about much, well, no more than taking care of regular automated backups, and timely updating of the CMS so that, without any competitors, you don’t become a hotbed of some kind of infection ...
You have to be a fairly serious competitor in some fairly lucrative area for someone to really start wasting money and time and taking risks to hurt.
If this is really something serious, then hire a qualified developer and a qualified administrator to maintain the site itself and its environment, respectively. It is understood that such sites are no longer hosted on shared hosting.

Answer 2

Specifically for your case:
Keep track of version updates of all plugins and all software, very often such sites are broken due to hacking of the plugin or due to the old version of wordpress.
Ideally, the admin panel should not be accessible from the Internet to the whole world, that is, you first need to connect via VPN to some server or intermediate computer, and then connect to the site admin panel from it.
General:
You will be bombarded with phishing emails saying “you have a problem with your website”, “domain expires”, etc. And the goal will be the same: to force you to download and run an evil file or enter your username and password on a phishing site. Get ready for them.
A competitor will not try to harm you, for this you need to spend money on real intruders and this is a crime, but those who decide to hire intruders who will start by scanning your site’s vulnerabilities, then start a phishing attack or social engineering (they will start calling and pretending to be a hoster or your admin, or by someone else) again in order to lure out a login and password, or in order to persuade you that they will send a letter now and it is not evil.
Be sure to keep a copy of the entire database somewhere else. So that if you get hacked, you can start from scratch.

Answer 3

Hello.
There is little specificity in your question, and the details are very important here. Threats can be wagon - depends on a number of factors. The value and scale of your project (business), the niche and the competition corresponding to it, the level of "shiza" of competitors and their willingness to pour money into denigrating the reputation or hacking the competitor's website, etc.

Now there is a site on wordpress.

If you are afraid of a site being hacked, you can install a commercial WAF or use a subscription service like Patchstack - such solutions will take over most of the automated attacks. Free security plugins are far from the most adequate approach to ensuring the security of your project, but still many people like it (because it's free, but such sites are hacked anyway).
Well, the basic recommendations for WordPress: do not keep unnecessary users in the system, especially privileged ones; regularly update the engine and plugins with themes; make regular backups; remove obsolete and non-updated plugins.