Cerber Tech, the security as a service company developing advanced security
solutions for WordPress, announces a major release of WP Cerber Security. This
release brings a set of new features and multiple improvements to the security
algorithms in the core of WP Cerber and Cerber Tech’s threat intelligence
platform.
The new version of WP Cerber brings a complete toolset to effectively manage
application passwords, restrict access to website APIs and monitor the usage of
REST API. Although using application passwords brings an additional security
barrier, the default WordPress implementation of application passwords is
absolutely minimalistic. With new tools, website administrations can configure
more secure processing of user passwords. In particular, they can restrict REST
API usage by authorization with application passwords only, meaning the
default, interactive user passwords cannot be used to access REST API, so it
can not be an attack vector.
Another security threat often overlooked by website admins is using REST API
for mounting brute-force attacks. It’s possible because, by default, WordPress
has no built-in protection against brute-force attacks. New WP Cerber’s
firewall algorithms protect websites against brute-force attacks targeting the
REST API authentication mechanism.
For advanced use of application passwords, WP Cerber offers logging API
requests and authorization events. Combining it with flexible email and mobile
notifications, website admins now get full control over WordPress APIs
available on their websites.
Another new feature improves anti-spam performance. It’s no secret that spam
comments infiltrating via commenting forms are ubiquitous, undesirable, and
tedious to manage. A new custom comment URL feature automatically generates a
unique URL for the WordPress comment form and improves the spam protection of
the form. Reinforced with analytics from Cerber Tech’s threat intelligence
platform and a real-time database of hosts known for disseminating spam, WP
Cerber’s anti-spam shows better efficiency.
The new version of WP Cerber also brings significant improvements to the
user login process. Handling user authentication and authorization by WP
Cerber’s access control mechanism has been significantly improved and
optimized. It’s crucial for a configuration when a website is configured for
using external user authentication via third-part connectors and WordPress
plugins.
“We’re seeing an alarming rate of cyberattacks aimed at small online
businesses and a significant increase in targeted malware attacks. To keep up
with modern security threats, we have to employ continuous software improvement
as a part of our cybersecurity strategy. It’s just a new norm,” says Gregory
Markov, the founder of Cerber Tech Inc.
Please visit https://wpcerber.com to
learn how WP Cerber protects websites against hacker attacks, bots, spam,
trojans, and malware.
About Creber Tech
Cerber Tech is a small team that is passionate about software engineering and delivering hack-proof and reliable security solutions.
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