Security and performance remediation for a national association

Challenge

A national professional association came to us after an audit surfaced a backlog of security and performance issues on their WordPress site: outdated plugins, loose access controls, and slow page loads on managed hosting that was configured for convenience, not performance.

Approach

We worked from the audit findings to remediate issues in priority order: hardening access controls, updating and consolidating plugins, and tuning the hosting configuration for Core Web Vitals. Changes were staged and tested before going live, so the public-facing site stayed up throughout.

Result

The site came out of remediation with a materially smaller attack surface, a cleaner plugin footprint, and faster page loads, without any downtime for the association's members.