What's Next?

Good morning, afternoon or whenever you are reading this! I hope you all had a wonderful spring break as I know I did. I can't count the number of shows I caught up on over break. Alas, all things come to an end. Enter the next week and I'm already onto the next steps of my project, but, first thing's first, I had to finish all the plug-ins that I promised to cover. All that was left was WordFence security which I was saving for the end. I also managed to meet up with Mr. Vange Thursday to talk about the next steps I had in mind. 

WordFence security is self-explanatory: it enhances the security capabilities of your website. The installation was super quick and easy, but allowed for much versatility. The most important feature that I could take advantage of was scanning. The scanning feature allowed the plug-in to scan my website for any security vulnerabilities. Of course, my website did not have any problems, but with very large websites. There are so many plug-ins and themes scattered around the code that it would be very hard to keep track of with just a few people. That's why the computer scans for you. That is probably the most useful, but there are many other features. You could set up two-step verification, limit sign-ins live if you are in the middle of an attack, black-list ips, ban networks by finding the attackers exact location, and set-up a firewall. There are many other features, but these are the one's I found the coolest. Here is a picture of all attacks happening on all WordFence security networks: (These are just the ones that have been blocked)

Now, as for the future, I plan on looking at a few other plug-ins -- one or two, but don't expect that many. One that I am looking forward to is CloudFlare which is a CDN or content or cache delivery service. Basically, a system of distributed servers (networks) that deliver webpages and other web content to a user based on the geographic locations of the user, the origin of the webpage, and a content delivery system. OK, maybe not basic, but all you need to take away from that is it will act as another layer of security and means to gather more data about the website. On top of this, as we approach the end of school, I need to be thinking more end game. So, as I initially planned, I am going to create a survey that will be collecting necessary data for me to use in my research. I am not going to tell you anything about it. You will have to take it yourself. No, I require that you do. It should be ready in the next couple of weeks. After discussing what I should bring up in my survey, Mr. Vange and I just talked about cyber-security and hacking in general which helped a ton in coming up with questions for my survey.

So, this is what I have been up to this past week. Again, I hope you all had a fun and exciting spring break, and, as usual, this is Adam signing off.