Dre Armeda: WordPress End-User Security

Sucuri Co-Founder Dre Armeda did a great presentation at WordCamp Chicago about end-user security for WordPress users.

Check out the video here:

Dre will also be speaking at WordCamp Las Vegas 2011, make sure to say hi if you’re attending.

David Dede

David is a Security Researcher at Sucuri. He spends most of his time dissecting vulnerabilities and security issues. You won't find him on Twitter because he is paranoid about privacy.

8 comments

Cathy Tibbles says:
November 22, 2011 at 7:28 pm
This is awesome – thanks for sharing it! 🙂
1. Andres Armeda says:
  November 22, 2011 at 7:32 pm
  Glad it was helpful, Cathy 🙂
John Hoff says:
November 22, 2011 at 8:18 pm
Great presentation. Thanks. Quick question though. For FTP I personally use sFTP as well, but wouldn’t FTPS or FTPES be another secured option?
1. David Dede says:
  November 28, 2011 at 4:08 pm
  Yes, FTPS/FTPES are good alternatives as well.
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Shi says:
May 5, 2013 at 7:42 pm
why do you sound like President Obama? lol How funny. Thank you for this video.
Linda Willis says:
June 26, 2015 at 3:36 pm
Couldn’t find the video. Has it been taken down?

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