Security incident detection for WordPress
The incident engine watches your activity log for five attack patterns and assembles what happened into an incident with related events and remediation steps, not a wall of raw log lines.
What it does
A raw activity log tells you everything and therefore nothing. The incident engine correlates events inside a time window and recognizes the shapes that matter: brute-force attacks, privilege escalation, backdoor installation, plugin compromise, and the hostile-takeover sequence: an admin login followed by security-plugin deactivation and a suspicious file upload.
How it works
Detection runs two ways: significant events trigger an immediate check, and a scheduled pass analyzes the last hour of activity. When a pattern matches, the engine creates an incident that bundles the related events, de-duplicates against incidents already open for the same pattern, and attaches per-type remediation recommendations.
Alerts go where your team already is: email, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, PagerDuty or any custom webhook, with per-incident-type alert rules. There is a REST API for incidents and a WP-CLI surface for scripting.
- Brute force, privilege escalation, backdoor installation, plugin compromise, hostile takeover
- Event-triggered and hourly scheduled analysis
- Incidents bundle related events with remediation recommendations
- Per-type alert rules across 6 platforms
- REST API and WP-CLI access
Documentation
Incident detection questions
Will I get flooded with alerts during an attack?
No. Repeat detections of the same pattern fold into the already-open incident rather than creating new ones, and alert rules are configurable per incident type.
Does it depend on the activity log?
Yes. The engine correlates activity-log events, so incident detection and the full activity log ship together in Pro.
Can I integrate it with my own tooling?
Custom webhooks support bearer, basic and API-key auth, incidents are exposed over the REST API, and a WP-CLI surface exists for scripting.
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