New Monthly Security Reports Now Available
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Do you know how secure your site is and if its security level is changing over time? Have you ever wondered how many actual attacks toward your site are being mitigated? Do you want to know if you have missed doing something easy that may protect your site from incidents?
Now with SiteGround’s Monthly Security Reports, you can get all that information and more – straight to your inbox. Just sign up and start receiving an actionable monthly report covering what SiteGround is doing to safeguard your site and highlighting security measures that you may have overlooked.
What’s in the Monthly Security Reports?
Each month we will perform automated security checks for your website covering malware protection, SSL certificates, software exploits, brute force attacks, and other security areas. Based on our checks, you’ll receive a digestible summary of the results – including a total site security score, breakdown score for each security check, and actionable tips if some area needs your attention. The monthly security reports will be your go-to place to get an overview of your website security status.
The benefits of the Monthly Security Reports
Site security information in one place
Performing website security checks manually can be an investment of valuable time, effort, and money that most website owners can’t commit. With the monthly security reports, SiteGround will handle the heavy lifting for you, performing all necessary security checks and delivering user-friendly reports straight into your inbox. So you get to know everything with no effort required on your side.
Easy to understand format
With our user-friendly design, you can quickly scan the report and easily identify areas that need your attention, if any. All you have to do is follow our straightforward color codes: green when everything is good; yellow: needs improvement; red: definitely needs attention. You also receive an overall score for the month and information how it has changed in comparison with the previous month.
Actionable advice when needed
If we have identified an area of your site security that may be improved, the report will include easy-to-follow instructions on what can be done. For example, if we detect that you don’t have an SSL certificate installed on your site, it will provide you with a link to the information on how to set it up.
Confidence that your website is protected
By signing up for our monthly security reports, you may easily monitor what we do on a regular basis to keep your website safe. Each month you will see information like: how many software vulnerability attacks have been prevented; how many malicious IPs were stopped from reaching your site; how many backups you may count on, etc. Making sure your site is secure is an enormous part of our job as a host, and with the reports you can keep an eye on this process.
How to get the Monthly Security Reports?
Starting from next year we will gradually begin to proactively send the reports to all our clients. However, you may hurry up and sign in yourself today and be among the first to receive their report in early January 2023.
To subscribe for your report now, just go to: Client Area -> Notification Preferences -> Monthly Security Reports.
The reports are sent out at the beginning of each month for sites that have been active for more than 30 days and have their domains pointed to SiteGround. You can see detailed information on subscription, content and score calculation in our Security Reports Explained article.
Sign up today and sleep soundly, knowing that all relevant site security information is right at your fingertips.
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David Adams
Does this feature require the SG Security plugin to be installed? If so, can this plugin co-exist with Wordfence?
Gabriela Andonova Siteground Team
Thank you for this question, David! The Monthly Security Reports feature does not require the installation of our or any other security plugin. The automated security checks and reports are a SiteGround-developed feature and are available for all SiteGround websites (not just WordPress ones). All that is required is that the subscribed sites have been active for over 30 days and that their domains are pointed to SiteGround. You can read more about the Monthly Security Reports here: https://www.siteground.com/kb/monthly-security-reports
Derek Short
Awesome! I can't wait to share this information with my clients.
Valery
Can you display a sample report?
Gabriela Andonova Siteground Team
Hey Valery. The security reports are tailored specifically to the websites they are activated for. So in this sense, each report would be unique to the account and website. To describe the format in short, you'll see a score breakdown for each of the security areas we check. And in the areas where the website score is below optimal, you will get specific recommendations on how to improve it. For more information, check out this article: https://siteground.com/kb/monthly-security-reports/
Valerie Lancaster
Monthly security reports - this option should be made available to the Collaborator (the web designer) for the site.
Gabriela Andonova Siteground Team
Hi Valerie! Right now, the reports are sent to the admin email address provided for the account so the account owner can forward them to their developer/collaborator if they wish. Still, we're always working on enhancing our features, so we'll definitely consider your suggestion for future updates. Thanks for the feedback!
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