Dre Armeda

About Dre Armeda

Dre Armeda, CISSP is Co-Founder at Sucuri Inc, and head of Business Development through acquisition by GoDaddy. After a successful acquisition last year, Dre now heads the Enterprise Sales and Partnerships Group for GoDaddy’s Website Security business unit. He is a Navy veteran that fell in love with security and making stuff for the web. On his off time, you’ll find Dre hanging out with his 5 daughters, on the mat practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and crawling rocks with his crazy Jeep in Big Bear! Sometimes while eating tacos while watching the Angels or the Chargers. Dre speaks at various events every year about security, marketing, and business. You can follow him on his site armeda.com or on Twitter @dremeda

October 3, 2017Dre Armeda

Website Hosting: Security Awareness Can Reduce Costs

Website hosting security has matured in recent years. Naturally, the types of security issues have changed because of it. For example, cross-contamination over multiple shared hosting accounts used to be a major problem for large website hosting providers, but this isn’t really a huge threat today….

December 8, 2016Dre Armeda

How to Secure Websites for Clients

In our last webinar, How To Account For Security With Customer Projects, I spoke about maintenance and sustainment contracts – specifically how to use them to better account for client…

April 1, 2014Dre Armeda

Thumb Wars: Sucuri Acquires Google Webmaster Tools

Today Sucuri unofficially acquires Google Webmaster Tools. In an effort to combine forces of good, Sucuri officials challenged Google to a thumb wrestling war. Here is a breakdown of the…

January 15, 2014Dre Armeda

Sucuri Company Meeting – Brazil 2014

2013 was a great year for Sucuri! We were able to add some great services and tools like CloudProxy to help website owners and administrators fight malware. We also grew…

September 20, 2013Dre Armeda

Sucuri Expands Research Efforts with Acquisition of Unmask Parasites

Our goal at Sucuri is to be the best website security company of today and in the future. To help build on our existing research efforts, and to expand our…

September 11, 2013Dre Armeda

WordPress 3.6.1 Released – Includes Security Fixes

The WordPress team just pushed out a new version of WordPress. WordPress 3.6.1 is a maintenance release that includes some security bug fixes. Straight from their release post, these are…

September 6, 2013Dre Armeda

Over 10% of Alexa TOP Million Websites Found Not Safe – Infographic Report

We scan a lot of websites per day. Through our daily work we see all sizes and types of websites compromised, blacklisted, and filled with various security issues. But, we…

June 21, 2013Dre Armeda

WordPress 3.5.2 Security and Maintenance Release

The WordPress team just pushed out a new version of WordPress (3.5.2) that has some security bugs fixed. Straight from their release post, these are the security changes: Blocking server-side…

May 2, 2013Dre Armeda

Game of Coins: The Uprise of Bitcoin Mining

Research by Daniel Cid. Authored by Dre Armeda. One thing you can’t take away from some of the attackers we deal with everyday is their creativity. From time to time…

February 15, 2013Dre Armeda

WordPress Plugin: Easy Digital Downloads – Security Flaw Discovered and Patchedd

Last night we were contacted by Adam Pickering about a security flaw discovered in Easy Digital Downloads (EDD), a free WordPress eCommerce plugin that allows you to sell digital downloads….

February 1, 2013Dre Armeda

Dre Armeda Presenting on WordPress Security at WordCamp Phoenix 2013

Here is the video for the WordPress Security presentation at WordCamp Phoenix 2013: Here is the slide deck from the presentation: Leave us your comments below.