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Security isn’t something you check once a year.

Field Note #322
🔬 Generalized 🟢 Beginner ⏱ 5 Minutes ✓ Observation from Experience
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, but website security shouldn’t be treated like an annual inspection.
Your website is a living system.
You add a plugin.
Someone gets access.
A new integration gets connected.
A developer adds a function.
An old account gets forgotten.
A piece of software stops being maintained.
Over time, those changes can create something called security drift — where a website gradually accumulates unnecessary access, outdated components, or permissions that no longer make sense.
That’s why maintaining security is about more than installing a security plugin and moving on.
It’s worth periodically asking:
→ Who has access to the site right now?
→ Does everyone still need the permissions they have?
→ Are unused accounts still active?
→ Are all those plugins, scripts, and integrations still necessary?
→ Is the software being updated and maintained?
→ Are custom functions and third-party connections still behaving as intended?
You don’t need to be a security engineer to understand the principle.
Every change to your website can change its security posture.
The goal isn’t to make security a once-a-year project.
It’s to make security part of how you maintain the website.
A secure website isn’t just one that was secured. It’s one that continues to be maintained.

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