What are the chances your WordPress website will be hacked? Forbes Magazine reports that more than 30,000 websites are hacked every day, becoming carriers of malicious code that spreads the problem to visitors, users, and customers. Without a WordPress security plan in place, your chances of falling victim to malicious hackers are astronomical.
Damage costs are hard to pin down. Some are evident, such as hiring a developer to salvage the site. This alone can cost many hundreds of dollars or more, depending upon the severity of the breach. Once malicious code has been injected, your site can end up on search engine blacklists, which means search engines will not crawl your site or include it in keyword searches. Cleaning this up adds additional expenses.
Then there’s time spent communicating with your internal team, outside vendors, and clients. Tally up the hours spent investigating, researching, and working on the problem, and you begin to rack up some serious dollars. Don’t forget costs to keep the problem from recurring, such as changing web hosts and investing in preventive services.
Other “soft costs” are not easy to quantify, but are just as damaging. One of the biggest is data loss. Removing malicious code can result in lost or compromised data. Sometimes hackers just go in and remove or replace your entire site. Even if your data is backed up, malicious code may infect your backup, too.
The worst damage is to your reputation. If using your site damages users, vendors, and clients, there may be legal ramifications, attorney fees, costs of repair – you get the idea! Bouncing back is a time-consuming, lengthy process.
Then there’s loss of revenue when the web host takes your infected site down, and while it remains offline for repairs. All this disruption spells aggravation and stress, both of which can take a heavy toll on your own well-being.
Making sure a hack never happens is far more economical than cleaning up afterward. That’s where webguy.tech shines, with three protection plans designed to fit most budgets. Web is what we do! We’ll make sure your site is not an easy target for hackers.
