Website Security Audit Chorlton

What an audit protects on a Chorlton website

Many practices in the area, from counsellors to massage and wellness studios, collect names, phone numbers and sometimes health details through a contact or booking form. That information may be sitting in the WordPress database, in a form plugin’s entries table, or in a mailbox. An audit shows exactly where it goes and who can read it.

Creative freelancers have a different exposure: portfolio sites assembled with a page builder and several add-ons, then left alone for years. Small retailers on WooCommerce carry customer accounts and order histories. In every case the attacker’s starting point is usually ordinary: a plugin with a published flaw, a reused password, or a login page that never says no.

The audit checks; it does not clean. If your site is already redirecting visitors or showing warnings, start with our Chorlton malware removal page instead. The wider service is described on our Manchester website security audit page, and a penetration test is only included when we agree it in writing.

How the audit reaches you

The checks are carried out remotely. You create a temporary administrator account and share hosting access through a password manager, and we confirm in writing what is in scope before testing begins. Findings arrive as a document, followed by a screen-shared call.

If you would like the report explained across a table, book a time at our M8 office or ask us to visit you by arrangement. By car we are roughly 25 to 35 minutes from Chorlton through the city centre, more at busy times.

The audit in six stages

What lands in your inbox

• A findings list ranked high, medium and low, in plain language
• Plugins and themes with known flaws or no recent updates
• A full list of people and services with access to the site
• A map of where form submissions are stored and for how long
• Confirmation of whether your backups exist and restore
• An optional fixed quote to carry out the fixes

Who still holds the keys to your site

On sites built by a friend, a former employee or a freelancer, old access is the finding that surprises owners most. We trace each route in and ask whether it should still exist.

• Administrator accounts belonging to staff or volunteers who left long ago
• The original developer’s login, often still with full rights
• Support accounts created for plugin or theme vendors and never removed
• Hosting control panel and SFTP users nobody remembers adding
• The domain registrar account, sometimes registered in someone else’s name
• Google Search Console and analytics users with owner permissions

Closing these is often quick. Where the audit raises cookie banners or consent settings, our cookie consent setup service deals with them, and certificate or redirect problems go to SSL and HTTPS setup.

Frequently asked questions

Security audits for Stretford, Sale and Altrincham

We run the same audit for businesses in Stretford, Sale and Altrincham. Our main security audit page covers the method in more depth, and the Chorlton local page lists our other work nearby.

Send us your site address and a line about what it does, and we will scope the audit and quote before anything is checked. Request an audit quote, phone 0161 315 1151 or WhatsApp 07737 902425.