WordPress: Security

WordPress Security

Enterprise-grade protection for the world’s most popular CMS

WordPress can meet the highest standards of protection, compliance, and reliability, all without limiting your ability to move fast and innovate.

At Human Made, we’ve delivered secure WordPress platforms for governments, global banks, universities, and major media brands. From proactive monitoring to detailed access control, we help you reduce risk and build with confidence.

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Read the case study: Standard Chartered

What does enterprise WordPress security look like?

A secure platform is more than patches and plugins. It is a system designed to anticipate threats, contain vulnerabilities, and support your team in maintaining best practice.

  • Hardened hosting environments with region-specific data controls
  • Security-first development processes including CI/CD and peer-reviewed code
  • Proactive monitoring through the WordPress Security Team
  • Governance frameworks for managing users, roles, and permissions
  • Incident response support to resolve issues quickly and reduce impact

Whether you are using a self-hosted setup or a managed service, we help ensure your WordPress platform meets enterprise-grade security standards.

Key capabilities

Role-based access controls to manage who can create, publish, and deploy

Audit logs for tracking every action across your content and infrastructure

Zero-trust architecture that enforces the principle of least privilege

Continuous vulnerability scanning for plugins, themes, and core code

Custom policies to align with internal and regulatory compliance

Global hosting options ensure data sovereignty in regions like Frankfurt, Virginia, and Singapore

Our security initiatives are led by John Blackbourn, WordPress Security Lead and Director of Security at Human Made.

Benefits of secure WordPress at scale

  • Achieve and maintain compliance with frameworks like ISO 27001, SOC 2, and GDPR
  • Prevent breaches with early detection and rapid response workflows
  • Protect your brand and reputation from security incidents
  • Support governance with clear roles, permissions, and auditing tools
  • Expand your platform securely and sustainably

Enterprise use cases

Higher Education

Protect student and staff data with national frameworks while enabling secure publishing across faculties, campuses, and platforms.

Financial Services

Secure customer-facing sites and portals with robust infrastructure. Maintain data residency, and implement governance across teams.

Publishing and Media

Enforce granular user permissions, sustain uptime and reliability, while reducing exposure to common vulnerabilities.

Enterprise Organisations

Manage hundreds of users and workflows with full transparency and control, integrating security into every development stage.

Secure your platform with confidence

Human Made has helped lead WordPress core security development for over a decade. We combine open source leadership with enterprise experience to support your platform end to end.

Our team can help you:

  • Align your platform with internal policies and global standards
  • Audit and secure your infrastructure
  • Design secure editorial and development workflows
  • Build incident response and recovery plans
  • Provide training for your teams

Why Human Made?

We don’t just use WordPress. We help build it. From direct contributions to core security to supporting high-risk and high-impact projects, we bring deep expertise to every engagement.

Whether you’re securing a public sector platform, financial service, or high-traffic media site, we are ready to help.

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