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Website Security Audit Ashton-under-Lyne

A website security audit is a planned look at a site that is running normally, to find the weak points before an attacker does. For Ashton-under-Lyne care providers, manufacturers, trade suppliers and online retailers, we check WordPress, the hosting set-up and user access, then write up each finding with its fix.

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The risks an audit looks for in Ashton-under-Lyne firms

Care and health providers often collect referrals, job applications and contact details through website forms, and those entries frequently sit in the WordPress database for years. That makes the site a store of personal data rather than a brochure, and it deserves the same attention as the office systems. We follow published guidance when we report on this, and you should take advice on your own obligations.

Manufacturers and trade suppliers near the M60 face a different question. Larger customers increasingly ask suppliers to describe their security, and the website is often the most exposed system a firm runs. Market traders who also sell through WooCommerce carry payment pages, which attract card-skimming attempts. Our Manchester website security audit is built around these same weak points.

How we carry out the audit for Ashton businesses

The checks are done from our side using a temporary administrator login and, where your host offers it, limited hosting access. Anything that writes data, such as testing a restore, happens on a private copy. We report back on a video call, and because Ashton is only about 25 to 30 minutes from our M8 office by road, depending on traffic, sitting down together over the report is easy to organise, here or at your premises.

Six stages of the audit

1

Agree what is in scope

Domains, subdomains, hosting accounts and linked services such as booking or payment plugins are listed so nothing is missed.

2

Inventory against known flaws

Every installed plugin and theme, active or not, is matched against public vulnerability records, and unmaintained ones are flagged.

3

Access and passwords

We list users and roles, check two-factor login, look for shared accounts and test whether repeated wrong passwords are throttled.

4

Hosting and transport checks

PHP version, file permissions, exposed files such as debug.log, XML-RPC, TLS and security headers are all tested.

5

Forms, data and backups

We note where form entries live, how long they are kept and who can read them, and confirm a backup restores on staging.

6

Written report and call

Findings come ranked by risk with a fix beside each, followed by a call to agree what to tackle first.

Your audit pack

  • Plain-English findings ranked high, medium and low
  • Software with known flaws, and the update or replacement for each
  • A user access table showing who should keep admin rights
  • Notes on form data storage and retention settings
  • Server, header and TLS results with recommended values
  • The outcome of the restore test
  • A fixed quote for the fixes, if you want us to make them

Checks that matter most for care, trade and retail sites in Tameside

  • Inactive plugins left installed: they do nothing for the site but still sit on the server and can still be attacked.
  • A wp-content/debug.log file readable by anyone, sometimes holding file paths and email addresses.
  • Job application uploads stored in a public folder, where a guessed address opens someone’s CV.
  • Payment pages loading scripts from domains nobody on the team recognises.
  • Shared logins such as “office” used by several staff, so nobody knows who changed what.
  • An expired or mismatched certificate on a subdomain, put right through our SSL and HTTPS setup.

If the audit finds a live infection, it stops there and the site moves to WordPress malware removal. Once the fixes are made, ongoing WordPress maintenance keeps them in place month after month.

Frequently asked questions

Will customers notice anything while the audit runs?

No. Most checks only read settings and versions, and anything that changes data happens on a staging copy. We avoid heavy automated scanning unless it has been agreed, because it can trip a host’s firewall and block genuine visitors.

We are a care provider in Ashton-under-Lyne. Does the audit cover our data protection duties?

It covers the technical side: where form data is stored, who can reach it and how the site is protected. It is not a legal assessment, so use the report alongside published guidance and take advice for your situation on anything beyond the website itself.

Can you go through the report at our unit near Ashton Moss?

Yes, by arrangement. Walking through findings in person helps when the person who manages the site and the person who approves spending are different people. A video call works just as well, or you can come over to our office in M8.

What if we can only fix a few findings straight away?

Start with the high-risk items, which are usually outdated plugins with published flaws, administrator accounts without two-factor login, and missing backups. The report is ordered so you can work down it over time, and we can quote for any part of it.

Security audits around Tameside and Oldham

We run the same audit for firms in neighbouring towns: see our pages for a website security audit in Droylsden, Hyde and Oldham, or the main security audit page. Everything else we offer locally is on the Ashton-under-Lyne print and signage hub.

Want an honest written view of how exposed your website is? Ask for a security audit quote, speak to us on 0161 315 1151 or send your web address over WhatsApp to 07737 902425.

Website security audit across Greater Manchester and nearby

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