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Your website is secure. Right?

Field Note #323
🔬 Generalized 🟢 Beginner ⏱ 5 Minutes ✓ Industry Best Practice
It’s an easy thing to assume.
You have a security plugin.
Your site uses HTTPS.
Your hosting company says backups are running.
Everything seems to be working.
But website security isn’t something you check once and file away.
Take a few minutes this week and look at five basics:
🔐 Access
Who still has an account? Remove access that no longer has a reason to exist.
⚙️ Updates
Are WordPress, plugins, themes, and other components current?
💾 Backups
Do you have a recent backup? More importantly, do you know how recovery would actually work?
🔗 Connections
What third-party services, integrations, or apps still have access to your website?
🔔 Alerts
Would you know if something changed, broke, or was compromised?
None of these questions require you to become a cybersecurity expert.
They’re maintenance questions.
And that’s the point.
A secure website isn’t simply one that hasn’t had a problem.
It’s one where the basics are being checked, maintained, and understood.
Security isn’t a checkbox you checked once.
It’s a condition you maintain.
Take 10 minutes today and see how many of these five you can answer confidently.

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