Website Monitoring

Plugins

The plugin is available for any website owner that is using WordPress. This security plugin will monitor file changes, provide audit trails, apply hardening features and detect various types of malware, SPAM and other infections. The Sucuri...

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Website Monitoring

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...

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Testing the WAF Before Changing the DNS

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...

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Bypassing the WAF for Testing

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...

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Conditional redirections

Conditional redirections are classified differently than the iframe/javascript ones because they are generally done though the HTTP headers (via .htaccess) to redirect users from certain browsers or locations to malware/malicious locations. Referrer...

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Clearing Cache

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...

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Brotli Support

If your hosting provider has Brotli compression enabled, the Sucuri Firewall will automatically respect the Accept-Encoding headers.

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Block User-Agents

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...

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Block HTTP Cookies

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...

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Block HTTP Referers

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...

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