Security Hardening Services
Best practice reviews, recovery for hacked websites and project-managed hardening of your sites and servers - so a preventable breach never costs you revenue or reputation.
Three Ways We Help
Find out where you stand, recover from an attack, or work through a planned hardening program - all managed for you, start to finish.
Best Practice Review
We review your website, server, admin access and backups against a practical checklist, then give you a plain-English report ranked by business risk - not a scanner dump.
Get A QuoteFixing Exploited Websites
Site defaced, sending spam, blacklisted or redirecting customers to another domain? We clean it, close the hole that let them in and get you delisted.
Get A QuoteHardening Projects
A scoped, project-managed program of work across your sites and servers - staged, scheduled, tested and signed off so nothing breaks while you get safer.
Get A QuoteHardening run as a project, not a pile of jobs
Most security work stalls because nobody owns it. We take the whole thing off your plate: review, plan, approvals, scheduling, the work itself, testing and a written handover - with one point of contact the whole way.
1. Review & risk ranking
We audit the site, server, plugins, users and backups, then rank every finding by what it would actually cost you - lost sales, downtime, data or reputation.
2. Agreed plan and quote
You get a written plan with fixed pricing, the order of work and what each item protects. You decide what proceeds - nothing is done without approval.
3. Staged, tested changes
Changes are made in stages, out of hours where needed, with backups and a rollback path before every step. Your site stays online and your team stays informed.
4. Verification & handover
We re-test, confirm each finding is closed, and hand over documentation your team or your next developer can actually follow.
What we actually see in the wild
Almost none of it is clever hacking. It's ordinary neglect - and it's usually found the expensive way, after customers or Google notice first.
The plugin nobody updated
An abandoned form plugin left on a busy WordPress site let an attacker upload a file manager. Two years of enquiries were exposed before anyone noticed.
The ex-developer who still had keys
Old admin accounts, shared FTP logins and a support password in an email thread from 2019 - all still working long after the relationship ended.
Spam pages hiding in plain sight
Thousands of injected pharmacy pages indexed under a real estate site. Google flagged it, rankings collapsed, and the owner found out from a customer.
Checkout skimming
A few lines of JavaScript quietly added to a WooCommerce checkout, copying card details for weeks. Sales looked normal the whole time.
Backups that were never tested
Nightly backups running for three years - straight onto the same server that got encrypted. Recovery took days instead of an hour.
Ransom email after a quiet break-in
Attackers sat in a server for weeks, then emailed the director demanding payment. The entry point was a single reused password with no MFA.
The clean-up always costs more than the prevention
A hacked website rarely stops at the website. It takes your sales, your search rankings, your email deliverability and the trust you spent years building - and the bill arrives all at once.
Lost revenue
Every hour a store or booking form is offline, or blocked by a browser warning, is money that simply doesn't arrive.
Reputation damage
Customers who see a warning page, spam from your domain or leaked details rarely come back - and they tell others.
Search and email fallout
Blacklisting and de-indexing take weeks to reverse, long after the site itself is clean.
Your team's time
A breach consumes owners, staff and developers for days. Planned hardening takes a few scheduled hours.
Tell Us About Your Website
Share a few details and an Australian engineer will reply within one business day with a recommended approach and a fixed-price quote. If you're already compromised, say so and we'll prioritise it.