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Lightning talk for Fosdem'16
Title: Securing Wordpress
Subtitle: Reducing collatteral damage from insecure web applications
Abstract:
I am not proud of it, but I use Wordpress for a few personal web sites. To
be true, I'm not good at keeping my Wordpress install updated, and I'm not
proud of that either.
Defacements and data-loss are an acceptable risk: my sites do not need high
availability and I have backups (I think). But what about the risks I put
others in if my webserver gets compromised?
In this talk I will present a general solution for securing web application
specifically aimed at reducing collateral damage.
And consider this: If your wordpress can't reach the internet, is it still a
problem?
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