Category: Interviews

Aurelio Volle is the Chief Marketing Officer and Product Owner of LIVEN – the umbrella company that has brought us Image SEO Optimizer and WP Umbrella. With 4 degrees to his name, he works as a lobbyist and university lecturer by day, while handling marketing and communications for LIVEN by night.

Ryan Dewhurst is an ethical hacker and penetration tester who has dedicated many years in helping people in the WordPress community improve the security posture of their websites and protect them from malicious attackers. Ryan is the founder of WPScan, a free, black box WordPress security scanner written for security professionals and blog maintainers to test the security of their sites.

Ivica Delic has been working with WordPress since 2011 and has co-founded FreelancersTools.com. He has volunteered in the WordPress community and attended and presented at numerous WP Meetups about speeding up WordPress websites.

As of the beginning of 2019, WordPress powers 33% of the top ten million websites, confirming it as the most popular and widely used blogging and CMS platform again. Such popularity attracts a lot of attention, and application security software companies which typically focus on security solutions for custom web applications are now also interested in WordPress, and developing security solutions for WordPress sites.

Vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins have been the cause of more site hacks than vulnerabilities in WordPress core. One of the reasons why this is happening is lack of resources.

Julio Potier is the developer behind SecuPress, the WordPress plugin that makes it possible to easily secure your WordPress websites and blogs. Julio is based in France and is very active in the WordPress security scene

During this interview Akshat explains what happened during the BlogVault security incident, how he and his team found out about it, its aftermath, and how did the public react to their announcements and transparent approach. A lot of noise is made when a popular WordPress website or service is hacked, but not much is done to […]