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Security, Compliance, and Governance

Security, Compliance, and Governance

Security you can prove

FedRAMP Moderate. SOC 2 Type I. Patched before WordPress ships the fix.

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Trusted by CNN, NASA, Meta, and Salesforce

WordPress VIP takes a defense-in-depth approach to security with protection across infrastructure, operations, application, access, and network layers. The only enterprise WordPress platform with FedRAMP Moderate authorization, VIP also holds SOC 2 Type I compliance and runs on ISO 27001 certified data centers. Built to hold up under audit, procurement review, and real-world pressure.

Vulnerability management

Every CISO asks aboutthe plugins. Heres the answer.

Every plugin is scanned before deployment and continuously after. You get the full ecosystem with the risk already managed.

Catch vulnerabilities at the code level through WPScan before anything ships
Push patches ahead of WordPress core, with automated updates across the platform
Route alerts by severity and channel into your incident response process

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Network security

Most platforms react to attacks. This one absorbs them.

Network threats land before your application even knows theyre coming. Protection has to live at the edge. During the
2024 US election, VIP served more than 22 billion requests, absorbed DDoS attacks, and delivered 100% uptime.

Absorb DDoS attacks with network-wide protection and continuous traffic monitoring

Block unauthorized access and nefarious AI traffic through network and host-based firewalls that alert you in real time

Encrypt all data in transit by default, with TLS certificates automated through Lets Encrypt or any TLS certificate authority

Run on data centers certified to ISO 27001,
SOC 1, and SOC 2 Type I

Stress-test defenses through internal security testing, third-party penetration tests, and spam filtering through Akismet

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Data protection

You own your data.
We help protect it.

WordPress VIP runs every customer in full isolation. Your data, your database, your credentials nothing shared.

Give every application a dedicated database with unique credentials
Run web containers and uploaded media on read-only file systems to prevent backdoor installs
Separate WordPress and Node.js instances with their own processes and memory
Get automatic hourly backup and encryption for your production databases, including 30-day storage

Access and authentication

Someone had access they shouldnt have. Thats how most breaches start. VIP tightens every entry point
and logs every interaction, so you can monitor and control who accessed what and when.

Give exact permissions around who gets access and where

Set up additional layers of security with multifactor authentication (MFA)

Block brute force attacks at the network level

Track every access event in a full audit log

Centralize login through SSO with your existing identity provider

Let your security team try to
break it

Bring your threat model, your questionnaire, and the controls your auditors flag. A demo takes you
through how VIP answers each one and gives your team the documentation to verify it.

Get a demo

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Incident response

The backups run every hour. The recovery plan is already written.

Incidents happen. What matters is whether the backups, process, and playbook are already in place when it happens. On VIP, they are. Thats not a service tier its the default.

Recover from hourly backups kept for 30 days at both origin and offsite locations
Reconstruct data to last known good state through documented disaster recovery procedures
Get breach notification, investigation support, and transparency on third-party legal processes

GOVERNANCE

“Who changed that?” shouldnt be a hard question

For enterprise organizations, governance becomes the new security question. “Who can publish a page, deploy code, or
install a plugin? On which site, with whose approval?” Answering should take seconds. And nothing should go rogue.

Operational efficiency

Gate content publishing
with role-based approvals and block-level controls.

Risk reduction

Govern code deployments and plugin installs through reviewed, auditable workflows.

Brand consistency

Enforce design standards through block-level governance, so every contributor ships on brand by default.

Scalability

Define permissions by user
role, post type, environment,
and site.

Self-service

Set site-specific rules in multisite environments without needing a developer for routine changes.

Auditability

Track and audit every change across content and code: who shipped what, when, and where.

Governance where content gets made

See how security and governance works for enterprise content creation and distributed editorial teams.

Explore content creation

Compliance

Most of your compliance work is already done

Maintaining compliance is exhausting. Hundreds of controls, multiple frameworks, audits that never end.
We’ve already done the work, packaged to feed directly into yours.

Meet FedRAMP Moderate requirements on the only enterprise WordPress platform authorized to that level

Extend federal authorization to state and local government through GovRAMP and TX-RAMP

Validate controls annually through SOC 2 audits and continuous monitoring on ISO 27001 certified data centers

Compliance documentation in one package

Every certificate, report, and document is available in the Trust Center, ready to send. Request your own trust package.

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Procurement-ready for the public sector

How WordPress VIP meets government security and compliance needs at every level.

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Accessibility

Fixing accessibility later costs more every time

Accessibility is increasingly a legal line, not a nice-to-have. VIP builds it into the platform, the design system, and the development process.

Meet WCAG 2.0 AA and Section 508 today, with WCAG 2.2 AA as the active target
Start from an accessible base with default VIP components
Catch issues before release through automated and manual testing
Get ongoing expert review from third parties and agency partners like Level Level and Equalize Digital

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Chosen by teams that can’t afford a security failure

From classified government sites to unreleased product IP, WordPress VIP has zero tolerance for security risk.

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NASA

Consolidated multiple legacy subdomains into a singular hub with a flexible, block-based editing workflow designed for storytelling, SEO, and collaboration.

Read the case study

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Modernizing our main websites and streamlining how the public engages with our content are critical first steps in making our information more accessible, discoverable, and secure.

Jeff Seaton

Chief Information Officer, NASA