Dre Armeda

34 posts

Dre Armeda was Sucuri’s founding CEO and Co-Founder who helped start up the company in 2010. Today, Dre is Sr. Director of Technical Program Management and serves as Head of Technical Program Management (TPM) for GoDaddy's Partners Business. As head of TPM, Dre leads the PMO and Program Delivery Teams, ultimately driving all the program management functions and supporting our partners. When Dre isn't executing strategic initiatives at GoDaddy, you can find him on the mat training in Jiu Jitsu as a Carlson Gracie brown belt. Connect with Dre on Twitter.

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Website Hosting: Security Awareness Can Reduce Costs

Dre Armeda
October 3, 2017

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…

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How to Secure Websites for Clients

Dre Armeda
December 8, 2016

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

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Thumb Wars: Sucuri Acquires Google Webmaster Tools

Dre Armeda
April 1, 2014

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…

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Sucuri Company Meeting – Brazil 2014

Dre Armeda
January 15, 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…

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Sucuri Expands Research Efforts with Acquisition of Unmask Parasites

Dre Armeda
September 20, 2013

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…

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WordPress 3.6.1 Released – Includes Security Fixes

Dre Armeda
September 11, 2013

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…

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

Dre Armeda
September 6, 2013

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…

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WordPress 3.5.2 Security and Maintenance Release

Dre Armeda
June 21, 2013

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…

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Game of Coins: The Uprise of Bitcoin Mining

Dre Armeda
May 2, 2013

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…

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

Dre Armeda
February 15, 2013

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…

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Dre Armeda Presenting on WordPress Security at WordCamp Phoenix 2013

Dre Armeda
February 1, 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…

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