Secure your site from 99% of online attacks…
Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned developer, Guard Dog ensures your WordPress site remains protected around the clock.
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Security at the highest level
Guard Dog gives you the highest level of security on your WordPress website
Site Lock (only here)
The “Site Lock” feature provides robust security for a WordPress website by restricting file writing on the server, which serves as a protective barrier against various forms of cyberattacks.
Watch Dog
The “Watch Dog” feature provides continuous security monitoring for a WordPress website by tracking file changes, core integrity, software health, and local risk signals, helping detect suspicious activity before it becomes a larger issue.
Folder & File Auditor
Reviews the full WordPress installation by examining core directories, plugin and theme locations, and critical files to identify anything that is misplaced, unnecessary, or not properly recognized by WordPress, helping uncover inconsistencies, leftover artifacts, and potential threats that could impact site stability and security.
User Security
Includes configurable security controls that strengthen WordPress accounts and login processes by preventing unauthorized access, enforcing stronger authentication standards, reducing brute-force attack exposure, and protecting users from common credential-based threats.
Security Headers
Security headers are essential HTTP response headers that strengthen your WordPress site’s defenses by mitigating various web-based attacks and reducing exposure to potential vulnerabilities.
Disable Entry Points
Disabling specific WordPress features is a crucial step in fortifying your website against potential security risks. By turning off these items, you minimize the number of potential attack vectors and code injection vulnerabilities.
Infection Scanner
Runs a comprehensive infection scan across WordPress core, plugins, themes, and directories to identify malicious files, hidden back doors, suspicious code, and unauthorized modifications, helping surface security threats early and streamline the cleanup process.
File Remover
A user-friendly scanning tool that rapidly searches the WordPress installation for specific files, including detecting extension-less files that may indicate suspicious or misplaced content, allowing for simple review or removal without requiring shell access, command-line skills, or complex server tasks.
Plugin/Theme Refresher
This tool replaces existing plugin/theme files with a fresh, official copy from WordPress.org, ensuring file integrity and resolving problems caused by damaged or modified files, while keeping settings intact.
Security Reporting
The security report generated by our Guard Dog Security plugin will provide a comprehensive overview of the site’s current security status, offering valuable insights into both secured aspects and areas requiring further attention.
Automated Reports
You can send a complete security report on an automated schedule, including file change, core change, software health, risk review, and infection scan results, with delivery options available weekly, monthly, or quarterly.
Uncompromising WordPress Security
Have Impenetrable WordPress Protection
Having “Impenetrable WordPress Protection” means implementing robust and comprehensive measures to safeguard your WordPress website against various security threats.
Guard Dog Command Center
The Guard Dog Command Center gives you a complete, centralized security dashboard for reviewing the current protection status of your WordPress website. From one location, you can see the results of recent infection scans, review file and folder health, check for suspicious file activity, confirm WordPress core integrity, monitor software health, and identify local security risks that may need attention.
This command center brings together the most important Guard Dog security features, including infection scanning, Watch Dog monitoring, Site Lock protection, security headers, user security controls, automated reports, and scheduled scan settings.
Instead of checking each security area separately, you can quickly understand what is protected, what has been scanned, what issues were found, and what actions are recommended next.
By combining scan results, monitoring tools, protection settings, and reporting options into one easy-to-review dashboard, the Guard Dog Command Center helps you stay ahead of potential threats, respond faster to suspicious activity, and maintain the overall security, stability, and integrity of your WordPress website.
Site Lock Security Feature
This feature restricts the ability to write, modify, or upload files on the server. It targets the critical WordPress folders that are common entry points for malicious activity.
Watch Dog Security Monitor
Watch Dog provides continuous WordPress security monitoring by watching key areas of your site for file changes, core integrity issues, software health concerns, and local risk signals. It helps detect unexpected edits, modified or missing core files, abandoned plugins and themes, permission problems, public files, and other security concerns that may put your site at risk.
By actively monitoring these important areas, Watch Dog helps you identify suspicious activity early, review potential threats quickly, and maintain the overall security, stability, and integrity of your website.
These checks work together to give you a clearer picture of your site’s security condition at all times. Instead of waiting until a problem becomes visible, Watch Dog helps surface warning signs early so they can be reviewed, trusted, dismissed, or corrected before they lead to larger security issues.
It also helps turn complex security details into clear, organized results so you can quickly understand which areas are healthy, which items need review, and where action may be needed to keep the site protected.
Folder & File Auditor
Reviews the full WordPress installation by examining core directories, plugin and theme locations, and critical files to identify anything that is misplaced, unnecessary, or not properly recognized by WordPress, helping uncover inconsistencies, leftover artifacts, and potential threats that could impact site stability and security.
User Security Enhancements
Offers customizable settings to improve WordPress account and login security by minimizing unauthorized access, strengthening authentication requirements, reducing exposure to brute-force attacks, and better protecting user accounts from common credential-based threats.
Lock Down Site Headers
Security headers are essential HTTP response headers that strengthen your WordPress site’s defenses by mitigating various web-based attacks and reducing exposure to potential vulnerabilities.
Detailed Infection Scanner
Delivers an in-depth infection scanner that analyzes WordPress core files, plugins, themes, and directories to uncover malware, back doors, suspicious code patterns, and unauthorized changes, enabling early detection of security issues and supporting efficient cleanup and remediation efforts.
By comparing files against known clean baselines and continuously updated threat signatures, the scanner detects both known and emerging attack patterns, even when malicious code is hidden or designed to evade basic checks. It also flags anomalies such as altered core files, unfamiliar admin-level scripts, and writable files in restricted locations common indicators of compromise.
File Remover Tool
An intuitive scanning tool that quickly searches the WordPress installation for specific files, including identifying files without extensions that may signal suspicious or misplaced content, enabling easy review or removal without the need for shell access, command-line knowledge, or complex server operations.
By eliminating the need for shell access, command-line expertise, or complex server operations, the scanner empowers site owners, developers, and support teams to safely inspect and manage files directly from the WordPress dashboard. This streamlines investigation and cleanup workflows, reduces the risk of accidental damage to legitimate files, and allows suspicious or unnecessary files to be quickly isolated, reviewed, and removed with confidence, even in restricted hosting environments.
Plugin & Theme Refresher Tool
This tool safely replaces existing plugin or theme files by removing them and reinstalling a clean, verified version directly from WordPress.org, ensuring only official repository files are used.
It helps resolve issues caused by corrupted, modified, or compromised plugins or themes while preserving settings for a fast, low-risk recovery.
Detailed Security Reports
The security report generated by our Guard Dog Security plugin provides a clear, comprehensive overview of the site’s current security status.
It highlights secured areas alongside vulnerabilities or risks that require attention, making it easy to review, share, and take action.
1. What is the Guard Dog WordPress security service?
The Guard Dog WordPress security service provides ongoing monitoring, malware prevention, and real-time protection to keep your website safe from threats.
2. How does Guard Dog protect my WordPress site?
It continuously scans your site, blocks malicious activity, and alerts you to potential vulnerabilities before they become serious issues.
3. Is Guard Dog a one-time service or ongoing protection?
Guard Dog is an ongoing security service that provides 24/7 monitoring and protection for your WordPress website.
4. What types of threats does Guard Dog prevent?
It protects against malware, brute force attacks, hackers, vulnerabilities, and unauthorized access attempts.
5. Will Guard Dog slow down my website?
No, the service is optimized to provide strong security without negatively impacting your website’s performance.
6. Do I still need other security plugins with Guard Dog?
In most cases, Guard Dog replaces the need for multiple security plugins by offering comprehensive protection in one service.
