Unmaintained third-party components
Every plugin is code written by someone else. When a flaw is published in it, that flaw becomes public for everyone — including those sweeping the web for unpatched sites.
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Security vulnerabilities
Outdated plugins expose your data and your customers' data.
Most intrusions target nobody in particular. They are bots sweeping the web for known vulnerable versions and exploiting the first one they find. A site with plugins untouched for two years is not "under the radar": it is simply waiting to be found. In Quebec, Law 25 adds mandatory disclosure and penalties in the event of a leak.
The warning signs
- Plugins or a platform not updated in over a year
- No two-factor authentication on admin access
- Backups never tested — or whose location nobody knows
- Former employees' accounts still active
- No logging: impossible to know who did what, and when
The most common entry points
Over-broad access
One admin account shared by five people, no second factor, a password reused elsewhere: that is the most frequent scenario in real compromises.
Unencrypted data
Personal information stored in plain text, backups reachable without authentication, API keys left in the code: the leak is then total, not partial.
What it costs
A compromise is not limited to technical clean-up. There is the business interruption, the mandatory notification of the people affected, the loss of customer trust, and the search ranking that collapses if Google flags your site as dangerous. For a small business the bill almost always exceeds what prevention would have cost.
$25M
maximum penalty under Quebec Law 25
Promptly
notice required when there is a risk of serious harm
60%
of attacks target known third-party components
How we audit it
- Component inventory cross-checked against published vulnerabilities
- Review of access, roles and authentication
- Verifying encryption of sensitive data, at rest and in transit
- Actually restoring a backup — not just confirming it exists
- Checking security headers and service exposure
Our action plan
01
Close the urgent gaps
We first patch known, exploitable vulnerabilities and shut unnecessary access. Those are what bots are actively hunting for.
02
Lock down access
Mandatory two-factor authentication, named accounts, permissions limited to what is needed, immediate revocation when someone leaves.
03
Make security continuous
Automated updates, alerts on new vulnerabilities, regularly tested backups, logging you can actually use during an incident.
The full answer
Proactive web securityDo you know what is exposed today?
We audit your exposure and hand back the vulnerability list ranked by severity, with the exact fix for each one.
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