Why You May Want to Consider Perfect Dashboard for Your Site
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It seems like we see stories in the news all the time talking about how another company has been hacked, its customers’ details spread across the Internet. The lost faith in those companies, damage to their customer base, and public relations nightmare that results can permanently tarnish a company’s reputation or put it out of business entirely. Often these hacks could have been prevented had the company simply kept its software and security measures up to date. While no security system can ever provide complete protection, only by keeping security measures constantly updated does one stand a chance against these kinds of intrusions.
Unfortunately, few of us have the time to constantly update our security. Fortunately, a company called Perfect Dashboard has come up with a solution for WordPress users to make things much easier. Perfect Dashboard provides an end-to-end solution to automate updating, perform security testing, and repair any faults the process might generate. This saves you time, expensive calls to tech support, and the possible humiliation of a massive data breach.
Are You Out of Date With Updates?
Did you know that some estimate as many as 80% of WordPress websites run on an outdated version of the CMS framework or have outdated plugins? Either of those could create a vulnerability that would allow a hacker unauthorized access to your site (and possibly more). As a result, some 30,000 websites get hacked every single day, often becoming the instruments of the hackers through which they spread even more malware and send spam emails. Spam and other malicious content can actually comprise as much as 20% of the bandwidth of some hosting companies.Why Does This Happen?
With so many websites out there, you may ask yourself how so many companies have allowed these kinds of security flaws to develop? The problem rests in the fact that updates can often cause websites to experience errors. For many in the IT community, waiting until a software has seen a few revisions (allowing developers to work out all the bugs) has become standard practice. Unfortunately, this prevailing wisdom does not translate well to website security practices. On the other hand, those that aggressively keep their site’s software updated may spend a lot more time and money repairing the conflicts and errors those updates may cause. The result: site owners, hosts, and web professionals become more lax in their updating practices to avoid the headaches it can entail. A fact that hackers take advantage of when they launch their attacks.How Does Perfect Dashboard Prevent This?
Utilizing a panel and API, Perfect Dashboard keeps your WordPress site’s CMS, themes, and plugins up-to-date automatically. Better still, it tracks the changes these updates make, analyzing the impact the resulting variations have on the site. Offering full-scale, pixel-by-pixel testing, it validates the website after every update, and can help roll-back updates or identify any resulting problems, making it easier to fix.