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Using Fail2Ban with Cloudflare

index Introduction to Fail2Ban Using Fail2Ban with WordPress on vCanopy Using an Action to block IP addresses at Cloudflare Setting up our Action Introduction to Fail2Ban Huge thank you to Ken Wiesner for making this article possible and freely contributing the info to the vCanopy community! Fail2Ban is an open source intrusion detection software installed […]

Secure Your WordPress Websites: An Overview of the Security Tab

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Web Application Firewall Options Fail2Ban Integration Additonal Measures (Nginx and OLS Hardening Options) Access (HTTP Auth and Site Suspension) Further Reading Introduction This article is an introduction to the security tab which is now a part of the website configuration modal. This changes a few things around – moving the Web […]

Using the vCanopy 7G Web Application Firewall on Nginx

TABLE OF CONTENTS  Introduction The 7G Firewall Configuration Location on Nginx Part 1. Enable the Firewall Part 2. The 7G WAF Logs Part 3. Enable/Disable 7G WAF Rulesets Part 4. 7G WAF Whitelist Rules Part 5. Real 7G Whitelist Rule Examples Part 6. 7G Ruleset Customisation Part 7. Creating Custom Rules IMPORTANT Do NOT copy […]

Server Provider Attack Warnings: How to Find Brute Force Malware

WRITTEN BY THOMAS RAEF This article was contributed by Thomas Raef, the founder of WeWatchYourWebsite.com. Thomas runs a website protection, monitoring and malware removal service and is one of a very, very short list of people who we recommend for this service. So you got a notification from your server provider that your server is attacking […]

Additional Security Measure Nginx Includes and Whitelisting

Introduction  The vCanopy Additional Security measures for WordPress hardening each contain an Nginx include which can be used when are they are active. You can use these includes to customize their behaviour, including adding your own whitelisting. You can learn more about our Nginx/OLS hardening measures in this knowledge base article: WordPress Website Hardening for […]