In the early Internet age, operating systems used to use the hosts file to resolve hostnames to IP addresses until public DNS servers were commonplace. Operating systems continue to allow you to edit the hosts file manually in order to bypass...
The WAF will be in the middle of the communication between the visitors and the hosting server to be able to filter the malicious requests. Because of that, the connection is modified and the source IP at the network level will be shown as the...
Here’s a step by step on how to configure the Sucuri firewall if your website is hosted at GoDaddy: 1) Add your website’s domain name here, by clicking on Add Site in the top right hand corner. Then, add your domain name and click on Add this Site...
To help fit your site’s needs, the Sucuri Firewall offers you many security options. All of them can be found under Security in the Sucuri Firewall settings page. Here is what they mean: Admin panel restricted to only Whitelisted IP addresses Most...
DreamHost has a unique setup. If you change the domain A record when using their name servers, they automatically stop serving the website. The only way to stop this from happening is to to use the Sucuri name servers instead. Please read our guide...
By default, Sucuri Firewall will restrict access to your admin pages (e.g. /wp-admin, /administrator or /admin) so that only authorized IP’s can log in. That way, if your user accounts are ever compromised, your site will still be safe. To...
A good way to block unwanted visitors to your site is by blocking specific user-agents. By blocking their User Agents, you will stop any traffic that contains the specified name in the user agent field. A “user agent” is a software agent that is...
In order to increase your site’s protection, Sucuri offers an extra layer of protection to Sucuri Firewall users. It is what we call Protected Pages. This option allows you to restrict access to certain pages on your site and it can also be used as...
Sucuri allows you to block unwanted visitors to your site based on where they come from or based on its referer. HTTP referer (originally a misspelling of referrer) is an HTTP header field that identifies the address of the webpage that is linked to...