Dessky Security vs Secure HTTP Headers

Dessky Security is the ultralight plugin for basic Security Hardening. It is specially designed not to drain any resources from your website. Once you enable all major security measures your input is no longer required. Features include upload directory restriction, disabling of plugin/theme editor, admin username check and more. This plugin was developed by Dessky Team. Dessky Team does not provide support for the Dessky Security on the WordPress.org forums. In order to get support or make a suggestion from a Dessky Team you will have to Join Our Open Community and Start a Discussion. DISCUSS WITH THE DESSKY TEAM JOIN OUR OPEN COMMUNITY: The purpose of this open community is to have a collective place where the community can help each other, and we can get some feedback to improve Dessky Security as well. Joining the community is also a great way to connect with like-minded people and share your experience. You can also GET THE PREMIUM SUPPORT User Documentation: Although Dessky Security is already easy to set up, we’ve put together tutorials, guides, and some knowledge bases to help you set up and get started with it. I have further questions, how do I contact you? Please fill up the contact form and we would be more than happy to assist. Credits: Dessky Security is based on the ‘Sucuri WordPress Security’ plugin developed by Daniel Cid.

Harden your web applications. HTTP header fields are components of the header section of request and response messages. The headers define the operating parameters of an HTTP transaction. Securing HTTP headers will improve the resilience of your web application against many common attacks including those that are on the OWASP top 10 list. Securing headers can also improve your SEO rank and in addition to preventing websites from being marked as dangerous by browsers and antivirus applications. Protect sensitive user information and be compliant with privacy regulations. Defend users from stealing private data by protecting website cookies. Use the proper directive such as “secure”, “httponly” and “samesite”, all of those will be applied automatically by “Secure HTTP Headers” plugin. Secure HTTP Headers will automatically analyze any website and will build up secure headers directives, by the latest best practice. In addition, Secure HTTP Headers offers fully configurable options, apply or skip any header directive as needed. Install and activate Secure HTTP Headers with full confidence, the deactivation of this plugin will return your website header directives to their original state. Main plugin functionality HTTP Strict Transport Security – helps to protect websites against man-in-the-middle attacks and cookie hijacking X-Frame-Options – helps to protect users against ClickJacking attacks X-Content-Type-Options – helps to prevent the browser from MIME-sniffing Referrer-Policy – helps to control how much referrer information should be included with requests Clear-Site-Data – helps to ensure that data is deleted from the browser if the user logs out X-Download-Options – helps to control how IE 8 will handle downloaded HTML files Access-Control-Allow-Origin – helps to ensure whether the response can be shared with requesting code from the given origin Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy – helps to prevent a document from loading any cross-origin resources that don’t explicitly grant the document permission Permissions-Policy – helps to allow and deny the use of browser features in its own frame, and in content within any iframe elements in the document Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy – helps to protect websites against a set of cross-origin attacks dubbed XS-Leaks Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy – helps to protect websites against speculative side-channel attacks, like Spectre, as well as Cross-Site Script Inclusion attacks X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies – helps to control how cross-domain requests from Flash and PDF documents are handled Cookie Http-Only flag – helps to protect websites against Cross-Site Scripting, or XSS attacks Cookie Secure flag – helps to ensure that cookie is sent over a secure connection Cookie Samesite Lax flag – helps to protect websites against CSRF and XSSI attacks Expect-CT – helps to prevent the use of misissued certificates for a website. Note: The Expect-CT will likely become obsolete in June 2021 What are the optional extras? Magnisec is offering “Secure HTTP Headers enhanced” A plugin that contains, in addition, an engine that watches and builds in any website changes a CSP – Content Security Policy that is best practice and recommended by all professional securities experts, that mitigate XSS -Cross site Scripting, one of the most common and destructive attacks. Price: 50$ /year for a domain. More details and installation here