Monitoring solution provides the components you need to oversee your website security. It includes multiple scanners that, combined, can cover all aspects of your website security monitoring: Website Malware Scanner Website IOC (Indicators of...
To make sure the WAF is working as expected before changing the DNS records for real, you can configure your operating system to use the Sucuri WAF IP address when accessing your website. To do that, you just need to edit the host file on your...
Here’s a quick explanation on what some of our server alerts and errors mean. 403 error The 403 error is the ‘Forbidden’ error. It’s triggered when website or file settings have been configured with permissions above what users or the scanner...
There are a few simple ways you can clear the Sucuri Firewall cache. Clear Cache – Global To clear all page and file cache at once, simply go to Performance -> Clear Cache – Global in Sucuri Firewall’s settings. Then click the...
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...
A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user’s web browser while the user is browsing that website. Every time the user loads the website, the browser sends the cookie back to the server to notify the website of the...
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...
Blocking the top three attack countries The majority of website attacks come from specific countries: China, Russia and Turkey. Although we have nothing against those countries, the Sucuri Firewall gives you the option of blocking them from...
The Sucuri Firewall functions as a reverse proxy, filtering all incoming traffic through the Sucuri network, parsing good requests from bad requests. To accomplish this, a change is made to your DNS settings. Specifically, one or more A records are...
Comments are blocked by default on WordPress installations when the Sucuri Firewall is activated. This is done by blocking access to the xmlrpc.php file. This can cause issues with allowing users to comment on your posts and also with other plugins...