SiteLock is a cloud-based security service that scans websites for malware and vulnerabilities.
Some of the features it provides include:
- Site Scanning: SiteLock gives website owners peace of mind by performing regular scans of websites to proactively detect malware, malicious code, and vulnerabilities such as SQL Injection and XSS attack vectors.
- Automatic Malware Removal: With the Fix and higher plans, when a website is infected, SiteLock's service will attempt to automatically remediate and remove the malware without any user involvement required.
- Reputation Protection: SiteLock actively monitors blacklists for websites it monitors to identify when sites are blacklisted by spam services or search engines.
- SiteLock Trust Seal: All SiteLock plans offer the SiteLock Trust seal designed to reassure visitors that the website is safe from threats.
- Web Application Firewall: Get proactive protection against intrusions and attacks before they happen with the SiteLock WAF, available in the Defend plan.
- Global CDN: SiteLock's global CDN service can improve site performance by distributing assets globally and serving them up to visitors from the closest locations automatically.
Even though we provide SiteLock as an add-on service, we do provide a security suite that keeps your websites protected against malware and exploits.
Our security suite included with your hosting plan:
- provides the ultimate protection for your websites and does it automatically 24/7. No need to configure or tweak it all day long. The solution works effectively and efficiently right out of the box.
- blocks all bad bots attacking your website and malicious requests, including password-guessing/brute-force attacks, vulnerability scanning, malware upload, and others. It will block bot registrations and SPAM comments on your websites.
- has a subset of components that provided real-time virtual and physical patching of the vulnerable software so outdated CMS such as WordPress and plugins are not an issue anymore.
- has an in-built Reputation Monitoring along with a malware scanner that keeps websites clean and protected from getting blacklisted by search engines and antivirus services.
- detects and cleanup with advanced file deobfuscation techniques enable detection of encrypted malicious code embedded in files, which can be cleaned automatically in one click.
- detects any type of malicious file, including backdoors, web-shells, viruses, hacker tools, ‘blackhat SEO’ scripts, phishing pages, and many others.
Using SiteLock (or other security tools, plugin, or extension) is optional and we only recommend using these if you can configure it in a way that it doesn't impact the performance of your website.
To find out more, visit www.sitelock.com
