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Website Security Hardening

Security work for sites that have something to lose: access control, patch discipline, tested recovery and monitoring that wakes somebody up.

Typical price band
$600–8k
Typical timeline
1–4 weeks
Scoped quote
Within 2 business days

Most site breaches are not sophisticated, they exploit unpatched software, weak access control and recovery plans that exist only in theory. Hardening work addresses the attacks that actually happen: credential hygiene, update discipline, least-privilege access, sane headers, and backups verified by restoring them.

For e-commerce and anything holding customer data, the bar rises: payment-flow review, data-handling audit and compliance-adjacent checks scoped to what the site actually processes.

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Questions

Asked about security.

Yes, cleanup starts with containment (taking the site out of danger without destroying evidence), then removal, then hardening so the same door does not reopen. Post-cleanup monitoring is included: reinfection in the first month is on the engagement, not on you.

Hardening is a project; staying secure is a habit. The one-time project leaves you with the runbook and monitoring. Ongoing security maintenance rides on the maintenance retainers with security explicitly in scope.

Scoped vulnerability assessment yes; full red-team penetration testing is a specialist discipline, referred out to people who do it daily when that is what the risk profile actually needs. Honesty about scope beats fake depth.

Send the brief. Get the scope, number included.

Deliverables, milestones, timeline, terms, a written scope within two business days, with the price at the bottom of it. Not a fit? You keep the scope.

Engagement models: freelance · dedicated · team · hourly · monthly · fixed price