A secure CMS for your clients' ecommerce website [Security]

The world of CMS can be quite one-sided. With a market share of 60%, WordPress is the dominant force with lots of free or premium plugins and templates. This popularity has lead to a huge third party plugin and theme development ecosystem creating a whole industry dedicated to the CMS. But what happens when you want to focus on security for your website? Having lots of third party add ons to rely on to be updated could be a potential risk. Being market share leader means that not only is it popular, the potential for a security risk is also a lot greater.. Open sourced CMS and third party plugin management. In a report (found here) we can see that in the third quarter of 2016 WordPress held a 74% lead on hacked websites, followed by Joomla (17%), Magento (6%) and Drupal (2%). It makes sense that WordPress would be at the top here as there are so many more users on WordPress than any other. And it isn't a surprise that a lot of these hacks are due to third party plugins. The upside of having an open source CMS is that there is a lot of freedom to create new plugins and themes based around it. But the downside is that you are open for hackers to download the source material and find loopholes to exploit.. Third party plugins can be increasingly unreliable if the developers aren't regularly patching their product. If the plugins or CMS isn't updated regularly (either through the developers side or relying on the client side) then this can mean that your client and their business are open to being hacked. Over 72% of all compromises are from PHP based backdoor incidents.. Partnered payment gateways with WebBoss. To deal with important aspects of an ecommerce site we have partnered directly with companies such as Allied Wallet, Barclaycard and Worldpay who deal directly with the clients. These partnerships mean we bypass any need for third-party plugins which can be troublesome and work solely with their developers to package a s

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