Protect

Security, backups, and SSL

Multi-layer security, automated site and database backups, and SSL across complex multi-domain setups.

AZTANDC LLC helps organizations protect the websites, content management systems, ecommerce platforms, portals, and web applications they depend on. Our services include platform hardening, automated backups, tested recovery procedures, SSL certificate management, security headers, abuse prevention, vulnerability remediation, and ongoing monitoring.

Security is treated as an operational requirement throughout the life of a digital property—not as a one-time scan performed shortly before launch. Although no website or application can be guaranteed completely immune from attack, properly implemented controls can significantly reduce risk, limit disruption, and make recovery faster.

Assess

Website and Application Security Assessments

Security reviews for new and existing digital properties
Content management system and administrative-access audits
Theme, extension, module, plugin, and software dependency reviews
Security-header and SSL configuration testing
Public form, login, account, and registration reviews
Hosting, caching, CDN, API, and DNS configuration reviews
Identification of outdated or unsupported components
Review of automated security and compliance scan findings
Prioritized remediation recommendations based on risk and impact

CMS and Platform Hardening

Security configuration for content management systems and ecommerce platforms
Administrator, editor, customer, and service-account reviews
Protection of login and administrative paths
Brute-force and credential-stuffing mitigation
Multi-factor authentication integration where supported
File-editing and sensitive-file access restrictions
Database and configuration-file protection
Removal of unused extensions, themes, modules, accounts, and services
Secure file permissions and environment configuration
Reduction of unnecessary information exposed to visitors and automated scanners
Hardening for platforms such as WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify integrations, and custom applications

Security Headers

AZTANDC LLC configures security headers based on the website’s actual functionality, integrations, and hosting environment. Headers are tested so they improve protection without unnecessarily disrupting content, embedded services, forms, analytics, ecommerce, or administrative tools.

Content Security Policy planning and implementation
Frame-ancestors and clickjacking protection
X-Content-Type-Options configuration
Referrer-Policy configuration
Permissions-Policy configuration
Strict-Transport-Security configuration
Cross-origin policy review where applicable
Subresource Integrity guidance for supported external assets
Remediation of insecure and protocol-relative resource requests
Testing against security scanners and actual website behavior

Content Security Policy

Inventory of scripts, styles, fonts, frames, images, APIs, and external services
Development of a policy appropriate for the website or application
Report-only testing before enforcement when appropriate
Configuration for analytics, consent tools, video, forms, payments, and embedded content
Nonce, hash, and approved-source implementation strategies
Identification and reduction of unsafe inline code
Monitoring and review of policy violations
Ongoing updates as integrations and functionality change

Protect

SSL and HTTPS Management

SSL certificate installation and configuration
Certificate renewal and expiration monitoring
HTTPS enforcement and redirect configuration
Multi-domain and wildcard certificate support
Coverage for production, staging, portal, and subdomain environments
Mixed-content identification and remediation
TLS configuration review
Coordination with hosting, DNS, CDN, and certificate providers
Troubleshooting certificate-chain and domain-validation issues
Verification following migrations, launches, and DNS changes

Web Application Firewall and Traffic Protection

Web application firewall configuration
Cloudflare, CDN, and hosting-level security integration
Protection against common automated attacks
Rate limiting for sensitive pages, forms, APIs, and services
Bot and suspicious-traffic controls
Country, network, or IP-based controls when justified
Rules for administrative, login, checkout, and API endpoints
CDN security and caching coordination
Review and tuning of blocked or challenged traffic

Multi-factor authentication implementation
Brute-force login protection
Rate limiting and temporary lockouts
Strong password and account policies
Review of administrator, editor, customer, and service accounts
Removal of dormant and unnecessary accounts
Least-privilege user-role configuration
Single sign-on integration where supported
Login activity and suspicious-access monitoring
Secure password-reset and account-recovery workflows

Spam, Bot, and Abuse Prevention

Public forms and account systems often require more than a single CAPTCHA. We combine multiple controls based on the type of interaction, expected audience, and level of abuse.

CAPTCHA and privacy-conscious challenge integration
Honeypot and hidden-field techniques
Submission and request rate limiting
Time-based and behavioral validation
Email and domain validation
Disposable-address and known-abuse filtering
IP, network, and geographic controls where appropriate
Server-side validation and sanitization
Protection for contact, registration, newsletter, donation, application, and checkout forms
Review of false positives to avoid blocking legitimate users

Ecommerce and Payment Security

Ecommerce platform security reviews and hardening
Secure payment-gateway configuration
Checkout and customer-account protection
Fraud, spam, and automated-order mitigation
User-role and administrative-access review
Protection of order and customer information
Secure transactional-email configuration
Extension and integration compatibility testing
Backup and rollback planning before ecommerce updates
Coordination with payment processors, hosting providers, and ecommerce vendors

API and Integration Security

API authentication and access-control reviews
Secure handling of tokens, keys, and service credentials
Input validation and request sanitization
Rate limiting and abuse prevention
Webhook verification and protection
Cross-origin request configuration
Protection of private application and database endpoints
Review of third-party integrations and data flows
Logging and monitoring of integration failures or suspicious requests

Domain, DNS, and Email Security

Domain and DNS configuration review
DNS changes for hosting, migrations, and SSL validation
Protection of critical domain records
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC implementation guidance
Secure transactional-email service configuration
Troubleshooting delivery and domain-authentication issues
Coordination between website, application, email, and DNS providers
Documentation of important records and service dependencies

Hosting, Cloud, and Environment Security

Hosting and cloud-environment security reviews
Development, staging, and production environment separation
Restricted access to nonproduction environments
Prevention of staging-site search indexing
Environment-specific credentials and configuration
Secure deployment and Git-based development workflows
Protection or removal of test and development data
Server, storage, application, and database access reviews
Backup and rollback planning for releases
Production-readiness security testing

Recover

Automated Website, Application, and Database Backups

Automated website and application-file backups
Automated database backups
Backup schedules based on how frequently information changes
On-demand backups before updates, releases, and migrations
Retention-policy configuration
Offsite or independent backup storage where appropriate
Encrypted backup options when supported
Backup monitoring and failure notifications
Protection for production and other critical environments
Documentation of backup locations, schedules, access, and responsibilities

Recovery and Restoration

A backup is only useful if it can be located and successfully restored. We plan for recovery as part of the backup process instead of assuming that an automated backup completed correctly.

Complete website, application, and database restoration
Individual file, database, or content recovery when supported
Recovery testing in a safe environment
Prelaunch and post-migration restore points
Disaster-recovery planning
Recovery-time and recovery-point requirement planning
Rollback procedures for failed updates and deployments
Documentation for owners, administrators, and technical teams

Malware and Compromise Response

Investigation of suspicious website or application behavior
Malware and unauthorized-code scanning
Identification of modified or unexpected files
Removal of malicious files, scripts, users, and injected content
Administrative-account and access review
Password, API key, and credential-rotation coordination
Application file and software integrity checks
Database review for malicious users, links, records, or scripts
Post-cleanup hardening and monitoring
Coordination with hosting, infrastructure, and security providers

Operate

Monitoring and Alerting

Website and application uptime monitoring
SSL certificate expiration monitoring
Domain-expiration monitoring where supported
Backup success and failure monitoring
Malware and file-change monitoring
Platform and software vulnerability notifications
Public form and critical-function monitoring
Performance and availability alerts
Escalation procedures for significant incidents
Regular reporting for managed digital properties

Vulnerability and Update Management

CMS, ecommerce platform, theme, module, extension, and plugin updates
Review of known vulnerabilities and security notices
Compatibility testing before higher-risk updates
Backups and restore points before deployment
Staging-environment testing where available
Removal or replacement of abandoned components
Post-update functional and visual checks
Emergency patching for critical vulnerabilities
Documentation of changes and identified risks

Security Scanner Remediation

Review of findings from automated security scanners
Validation of true issues, false positives, and platform limitations
Security-header and SSL remediation
Insecure script and resource remediation
Software dependency and configuration updates
Coordination with hosting, cloud, and CDN providers
Retesting after remediation
Documentation of exceptions that cannot be safely implemented

Review of analytics, advertising, and third-party scripts
Consent-management platform integration
OneTrust and Google Tag Manager configuration
Consent-aware loading of tracking technologies
Protection of information collected through public forms
Data-minimization and retention considerations
Technical implementation aligned with organizational privacy requirements
Coordination with legal or privacy teams when policy decisions are required

Security Documentation and Training

Website and application security documentation
Backup and restoration procedures
Administrator access and user-management guidance
Update and release procedures
Incident-response contacts and escalation steps
Training for administrators, content editors, and technical staff
Guidance for identifying suspicious activity and phishing attempts
Handoff documentation for internal and external teams

Ongoing Security and Maintenance

Regular security and configuration reviews
Managed platform and software updates
Backup monitoring and periodic recovery testing
SSL, domain, and uptime monitoring
Security-header and scanner-result reviews
Spam and abuse-control adjustments
Account, role, and access reviews
Hosting, CDN, cloud, and DNS coordination
Incident investigation and technical support
Security support for organizations managing multiple websites and applications

How we work

How We Work

Security controls must continue working through normal operations, software updates, content changes, caching, CDN rules, new integrations, and production releases. We evaluate the complete digital environment instead of applying isolated settings without considering how they affect users and essential business functions.

Before significant updates or security changes, we establish a current backup and a practical recovery path. Changes are tested against forms, account systems, ecommerce functions, analytics, consent tools, APIs, embedded services, and administrative workflows.

The goal is not simply to produce a one-time audit report. It is to create a digital environment that is harder to compromise, easier to monitor, properly backed up, and capable of being restored when something goes wrong.

Talk with AZTANDC LLC about website and application security, backups, SSL, monitoring, incident response, or ongoing maintenance.

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