WorpDrive WordPress Backup Features #2 – Ultimate WordPress Backup Security

By 18th October 2012 January 14th, 2016 iControlWP: Manage WordPress Better, WorpDrive

WorpDrive: Secure, Automated WordPress BackupSecurity is a hot topic these days. And for good reason. But what about your WordPress backup security?

As far as backup systems go, WorpDrive is inherently more secure than almost all others, and the reason is simple.

Do you use a WordPress plugin to manage your WordPress backups? Then you’re at risk, and I’m going to tell you why.

First, a reality check of traditional backup security

Let’s say you use a WordPress plugin to backup your WordPress site.

What does that actually mean for you, your backups, and your security?

It means 3 things:

  1. Your backups are only as secure as your WordPress site and web hosting.
  2. If your WordPress site is compromised/hacked then your whole 3rd party storage (Amazon S3/FTP/Dropbox) is at risk because the hacker will have access to this connection.
  3. If your WordPress site is compromised/hacked you can never fully trust any of your backups.

Consider more carefully points #2 and #3. Storing your backups and/or credentials on your WordPress site is possibly the worst approach to disaster recovery available.

That’s like keeping your PIN number on a piece of paper stuck to your credit card. It’s only safe until your whole purse or wallet is stolen.

How does WorpDrive handle WordPress backup security?

Since we launched iControlWP, security has been at the fore of all our features.

We are the only WordPress control panel for multiple WordPress sites that offers handshaking security, for example.

WorpDrive is no different. Consider the following security measures in place when you use WorpDrive backup:

  • All of your backup data is transferred to the backup location using secure SSL connections.
  • All of your backup data is encrypted when written to the backup location disk.
  • No credentials relating to your secure backup are ever to be found on your WordPress site. Nowhere!
  • Every time your site performs a backup, the password for your unique backup storage is changed. There is no way anyone can capture your password and use it later on. It changes instantly.
  • You don’t need any extra backup plugins on your WordPress site (only the iControlWP plugin as normal).
  • Each website protected with WorpDrive backup has its own unique, dedicated backup account. No two sites share the same space or same account – this means if, somehow, the backup location of one of your websites is ever compromised, only this site could ever be at risk.

For each of these points above, consider how they compare to your current backup solution.

Our guess is that they don’t compare favourably.

How does WorpDrive help detect, prevent, and recover a hacked WordPress site?

This is where WorpDrive truly shines as a backup and recovery solution.

WorpDrive is not by itself protection against hacking, but it is invaluable in disaster recover.

Every WorpDrive backup contains a detailed list of all changes made since the previous backup.

You can:

  • a list of all files that have been added, all files that have been deleted, and all files that have been changed since the previous backup.
  • view the contents of any file on-demand within the backup to review the changes that have occurred.

This is useful for 2 reasons.

  1. You can review the changes each day to ensure the changes to your site are exactly as you’d expect.If you notice anything strange, you can quickly review content to see that they are legitimate.
  2. If you discover later that your website has actually been hacked, you can use the WorpDrive Backup change logs to find the exact day the hack was performed and also what exactly the changes were.

WorpDrive is the perfect tool in the recovery from WordPress website hacking and recovery.

Now compare this with your growing stack of WordPress Zip files in your Dropbox… not so easy to do the same.

Why take the risk with your WordPress sites?

For the sake of saving a few quid, you can continue with the solution you have, and in all honestly, we wish you the best with it.

You’re probably using a system that’s been tried and tested for many years. So why change now?

Because the Internet and web services are always changing.

You can choose to adapt with it, or stick with what you have for now until disaster strikes.

If this article alone isn’t enough to make you at least consider improving your processes, then nothing will. If you’re not convinced by WorpDrive itself, at least consider other alternatives.

You can see more WorpDrive WordPress Backup benefits and features here.

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