Kathy Zant - Why Hackers Target Small Business Websites

ABOUT THE PRESENTATION
Often people ask why hackers are targeting their seemingly unexciting small business websites. And yet, these smaller websites are often receiving the brunt of malicious attacks.

Hackers understand economies of scale. As such, smaller WordPress sites are always under attack by bots looking for signs of vulnerability. Fortunately, there are a number of easy ways to protect your site by making good security decisions.

We’ll go through some of the most common methods hackers use to get into WordPress sites through some entertaining (and sometimes scary) stories.

You’ll learn key security principles to help you make good decisions to prevent intrusions, detect them, and recover from a security event if you are ever compromised.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Kathy Zant is an internationally recognized speaker on security, marketing, and data-driven website development. She’s spoken at countless events worldwide, both online and on stage, and she’s been an organizer for both WordCamp Phoenix (twice) and WordCamp US. A frequent guest on numerous podcasts about WordPress and emerging technologies, she is also co-host of The Kadence Beat, Do the Woo, and WPMotivate, and is a frequent co-host on This Week in WordPress. An Executive Producer of Open, the open-sourced documentary about the WordPress community, she is passionate about your stories and believes everyone’s voice deserves to be heard.

ATTENDING THE MEETUP
This event will be ONLINE ONLY. The Zoom link will be revealed and sent after you RSVP for the meetup.

It will be broadcast at 6:00 pm EST on Thursday, February 15 as a live Zoom online meeting.

Participants are asked to mute their audio when the presentation begins. Please hold all questions until the end. After the presentation concludes, the presenter, organizers, and members of the meetup will discuss the presentation, answer questions, and socialize in video conference mode.

This presentation will be recorded! We will post it to our YouTube channel but without the interactive Q&A at the end.

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