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WordPress Disaster Week

Presents

WordPress DISASTER WEEK

March 8 – 10, 2022

A FREE ONLINE TRAINING EVENT

Are you ready if disaster strikes your WordPress website today? From running an update that breaks everything to hacks or accidentally deleting an important file, the reality is it’s not a matter of if but when something will go wrong with your site. To help you combat the threat of website disasters, we’re hosting the biggest free, online WordPress security training event of the year so that EVERYONE can have a plan if and when a website catastrophe strikes.

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On average, 30,000 websites are hacked every day. Every 39 seconds, a new cyberattack happens somewhere on the web.

IT’S NOT A MATTER OF IF, BUT WHEN YOUR SITE WILL BECOME A TARGET

This year alone, grim statistics point to the urgent need for website owners to take active security measures to defend their sites against cyberattacks.

WordPress-RELATED vulnerabilites in 2021

Our recent WordPress Vulnerability Annual report totaled 1,628 WordPress-related vulnerabilities in plugins, themes, and core.

OF
HACKS Prey on small businesses

Nearly half of all cyberattacks prey on small to medium-sized businesses. Hackers know most of them don’t have solid security measures in place.

OF WEBSITE OWNERS Aren’t prepared

Almost half of all website owners say they don’t have solid security measures in place to defend their sites against attacks.

increase in cyberattacks

This year alone, cyberattacks have increased by 300% as hackers increase their efforts to exploit vulnerable websites with poor security.

The Training schedule

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Can’t make the live training? Go ahead and register and we’ll email you the replays.
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Day One,
Session one



Tuesday, March 8
@ 1:00 – 2:00 PM (CT)

with Kathy Zant

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WordPress Security 101: Some of the Worst Hacks Happen in Simple Ways


Think a disaster can’t happen to you? That’s what these WordPress site owners thought. In this engaging session, we’ll review stories of actual WordPress site hacks, how they happened, and how you can learn from the horror stories other site owners have experienced. Protecting your site isn’t hard, if you know the way of the WordPress security Jedi. In this session, we’ll take a look at how to protect your site from the dark side.

Day One,
Session TWO



Tuesday, March 8
@ 2:00 – 3:00 PM (CT)

with Kathy Zant

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ARE YOU PREPARED FOR A SECURITY INCIDENT?


Security incidents are a part of our lives in the digital age. For our WordPress sites, we need to be prepared to not only protect our sites from intrusion but to have a plan in place to facilitate recovery quickly. In this session, we’ll review key ways to find and fix security problems before hackers can exploit them, and we’ll also look at key steps to prepare your business and organization for a security event. Having a security incident response plan ready ensures your organization recovers and restores operations to minimize the impact of any disastrous event. We’ll review what an incident response plan looks like, as well as key ways to ensure minimal impact on your customers in the event of a security incident.

Day TWO,
Session ONE



wednesday, March 9
@ 1:00 – 2:00 PM (CT)

with Michael Moore

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7 Ways to Detect & Stop Malicious behavior on your website


Due to a lack of security logging, the average time to detect a breach is 280 days! That is why the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) has named Insufficient Logging and Monitoring as one of the biggest threats to your website. You have to be aware that WordPress login is being attacked, or your content is getting scraped to stop it. You need to know that your website was breached to prevent any more damage from being done. Simply put, WordPress security begins and ends with monitoring and logging.


Day TWO,
Session TWO



Wednesday, March 9
@ 2:00 – 3:00 PM (CT)

with Timothy Jacobs

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Power Up iThemes Security


iThemes Security can do a lot of things you might not know about. In this session, we’ll start off exploring how you can customize the lockout screen appearance and make adjustments to the Security Dashboard. Then we’ll dig into what we can do with WordPress Actions and Filters to change the behavior of features in iThemes Security like Two-Factor authentication. Finally, we’ll take a peak at the suite of WP-CLI commands that iThemes Security has to offer to accelerate how you manage iThemes Security.

Day THREE,
Session one



Thursday, March 10
@ 1:00 – 2:00 PM (CT)

with Nathan Ingram

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How to package & Sell Website Care Plans for clients


Can you make extra income by selling website security services? Yes! The key to selling WordPress Care Plans is education, and it must start at the first conversation.

In this session, we’ll cover packaging, pricing, and selling security services, along with how to educate your clients on the value of your website security services.

Day tHREE,
Session TWO



Thursday, March 10
@ 2:00 – 3:00 PM (CT)

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How to Set up Client Care plans: TIPS, TOOLS & SETTINGS


If you’re going to be managing websites for clients, it’s important to create a process and a checklist so that you know your work is consistent from site to site.

In this session, we’ll also consider a process for setting up client sites for ongoing management with the iThemes suite of plugins, including iThemes Security, BackupBuddy, and iThemes Sync. We’ll cover tips, tools, and settings designed for client work.


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Note: You only need to register once to get access to all six sessions.
Can’t make the live training? Go ahead and register and we’ll email you the replays.
See webinar times in your time zone.

Meet Your Instructors

Kathy Zant

Kathy has been working with WordPress for over a decade. She has both technical and marketing experience and has worked with a number of brands in the WordPress space. She’s helped organize both WordCamp Phoenix and WCUS. She currently lives outside of Denton, TX where she can often be found walking golden retrievers or hanging out in horse barns.

Timothy Jacobs

Timothy Jacobs is the Lead Developer for iThemes Security. He’s also a WordPress Core Committer, Component Maintainer of the WordPress REST API, and co-organizes the WP NYC Helpdesk Meetup.

Michael Moore

Each week, Michael puts together the WordPress Vulnerability Report to help keep your sites safe. As Product Manager at iThemes, he helps us continue to improve the iThemes product lineup. He’s a giant nerd & loves learning about all things tech, old & new. You can find Michael hanging out with his wife & daughter, reading or listening to music when not working.

nathan INgram

Nathan is the Host at iThemes Training where he teaches WordPress and business development topics. He is a growth coach for WordPress business owners, helping them become more successful in their businesses individually and in groups. Nathan is also the creator of MonsterContracts, a service that provides contracts for WordPress client work. He has been working with clients to build websites since 1995.

Disaster Week FAQs

WordPress Disaster Week is a website security training event hosted by the team behind the iThemes Security plugin. WordPress Disaster Week sessions are totally free and available to anyone online via the webinar format.

WordPress Disaster Week is great for anyone who owns or manages a WordPress website. The topics covered during WordPress Disaster Week will help you understand the basics of WordPress security, how hacks happen, and how to secure your site.

WordPress Disaster Week is also great if you build or manage websites for clients, as we’ll cover a whole day on selling and pricing WordPress security services for clients.

Yes! We understand not everyone can attend live. Go ahead and register for Disaster Week and we’ll email you the video replays. Replays are usually available within a few hours of the session ending.

We use the online webinar format to host our online training events. All instruction is given live and in real-time, along with a live, interactive webinar chat for attendees to ask questions and interact with other attendees.

After you register, you’ll receive a confirmation email to confirm your registration with instructions for how to join the live webinar. You’ll also receive several reminder emails leading up to the event.

To keep things simple, we’re offering a single registration to get you access to all six sessions of Disaster Week. You can attend sessions at your convenience. Sign up here now.

Sure thing. Once you sign up for Disaster Week, you’ll get automated email reminders 1 day and 1 hour before each session begins.

Before the first webinar, you’ll need to download the GoToWebinar launcher software for your computer or mobile device. You’ll receive several email reminders before each session begins with a link to join the live webinar. We’ll let you know about the live webinar chat URL before the webinars begin so you can join the live discussion with other attendees.

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With the drastic increase in WordPress-related vulnerabilities reported in 2021, you need a tool to secure and protect your WordPress site. iThemes Security Pro uses its own Site Scanner to check for known vulnerabilities in your plugins, themes, and WordPress core. The iThemes Site Scanner also checks your site’s blacklist status, website errors and for out-of-date software. Combined with the power of Version Management, your site will never run software with known vulnerabilities.

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