Gerson Ruiz

About Gerson Ruiz

Gerson is the Spanish Brand Evangelist at Sucuri. During the day he helps spread awareness about website security and contributes to Sucuri’s Spanish community, but at night he spends his time learning to code while listening to thrash metal, enjoying superhero content, or at his closest fritanga. You can read more posts from him on his personal blog mostlydevstuff.com.

January 15, 2019Gerson Ruiz

OWASP Top 10 Security Risks – Part V

To bring awareness to what threatens the integrity of websites, we are continuing a series of posts on the OWASP top 10 security risks. The OWASP Top 10 list consists of the 10 most seen application vulnerabilities: Injection Broken Authentication Sensitive data exposure XML External…

January 3, 2019Gerson Ruiz

OWASP Top 10 Security Risks – Part IV

To bring awareness to what threatens the integrity of websites, we are continuing a series of posts on the OWASP top 10 security risks. The OWASP Top 10 list consists of…

December 11, 2018Gerson Ruiz

OWASP Top 10 Security Risks – Part III

To bring awareness to what threatens the integrity of websites, we are continuing a series of posts on the OWASP top 10 security risks. The OWASP Top 10 list consists…

October 25, 2018Gerson Ruiz

OWASP Top 10 Security Risks – Part II

It is National Cyber Security Awareness Month and in order to bring awareness to what threatens the integrity of websites, we have started a series of posts on the OWASP…

October 3, 2018Gerson Ruiz

OWASP Top 10 Security Risks – Part I

It is National Cyber Security Awareness Month and in order to bring awareness to what threatens the integrity of websites, we would like to start a series of post on…

September 25, 2018Gerson Ruiz

SSL vs. Website Security

Having a website today is way easier than it was 10 or 15 years ago. Tools like content management systems (CMS), website builders, static site generators and alike remove a…

August 28, 2018Gerson Ruiz

Core Integrity Verifications

In order to clean a malware infection, the first thing we need to know is which files have been compromised. At Sucuri, we use several techniques including whitelists, blacklists, and…

April 13, 2018Gerson Ruiz

Content Security Policy

As a website owner, it’s a good idea to be aware of the security issues that might affect your site. For example, Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks consist of injecting malicious…

The Impacts of Zero-Day Attacks

Last week, we explained what zero-day vulnerabilities and attacks are. Essentially, zero-day vulnerabilities exist in the wild, with no patch available to prevent hackers from exploiting it. Today, we would…

February 22, 2018Gerson Ruiz

Understanding Zero-Day Vulnerabilities & Attacks

In computer science, a vulnerability is considered to be a zero-day vulnerability if it’s unknown to all parties interested in patching it, such as: The team maintaining the project The…

August 11, 2017Gerson Ruiz

How to Restore Website Backups from the Command Line

Earlier this week we wrote about how to use command line tools to back up your website. Check out our previous article for details on how we create these backups….