A few statistics to give you an idea of where your website stand in relation to other WordPress websites on the web.

1. State of WordPress
Security
wp-power.org 2017

2. 70%
70% of WordPress websites are vulnerable. This comes from Alexa (owned
by Amazon) which gathered statistics from 40,000+ websites.

3. This is because of a failure to upgrade
quickly

4. 19% have updated.
And the rest...
At the time of writing, only 19% are on the
newest version. It was released 14 days ago.
32.9% are on the previous version. And 48.1%
are begging to be hacked into.

5. You would think the bigger
companies have things in
control

6. But 90% of IT professionals
have admitted to breaches
Yikes

7. What do we do?
Small businesses should keep regular
backups, and they can hire a company like
wp-securehosting.com or wp-overwatch.com.
These companies have a hacker-free
warranty.

8. What do we do?
Big businesses should hire both on-site
and third party professionals. And the c-
suite needs to take their security advice
seriously.

9. NOTE: THIS PRESENTATION IS COMPRISED OF SOURCES FROM THE PAST TEN YEARS
Sources:
Slide 2: https://www.wpwhitesecurity.com/wordpress-security-news-updates/statistics-70-percent-wordpress-
installations-vulnerable/
Slide 4: https://wordpress.org/about/stats/
Slide 6: https://www.juniper.net/us/en/local/pdf/additional-resources/ponemon-perceptions-network-security.pdf