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Welcome to PowerSEC

Updated October 7, 2026 223 views

PowerSEC is a WordPress security platform that helps protect your sites from malware, vulnerabilities, brute-force attacks and downtime, without you needing to become a security expert.

What PowerSEC does for your sites

  • Scheduled malware scanning — a daily malware scan on every plan (you can choose hourly, daily, weekly or monthly), plus a firewall and login protection that work on every request
  • Vulnerability monitoring — a daily check of your WordPress core, plugins and themes against known vulnerabilities, with actively exploited ones flagged first
  • Firewall — blocks common attacks such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting before they reach your site
  • Brute-force protection — limits failed logins and blocks addresses that keep guessing passwords
  • Backups — local backups on every plan; on paid plans, scheduled cloud backups (a weekly full backup and a daily differential) for point-in-time recovery
  • One central dashboard — manage all your WordPress sites from powersec.io

How it works

  1. Install the PowerSEC plugin on each WordPress site you want to protect
  2. Connect each site to your PowerSEC Central account
  3. Watch the dashboard — each site reports to Central every hour (more often on Pro)
  4. Get alerts by email or in the app when anything needs your attention

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