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Our Goal
Keep WordPress Users Secure
Lesson 1:
Users Over Software
Users on Out of Date Versions of WordPress are Less Secure – What do we do?
Upgrade for them
Auto Updates
Should We Backport?
Will it help keep WordPress users secure?
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Yes?
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Backport it
Securing Users is Complex
Educate Users
Lesson 1b:
Educating Users is Hard
But Important
15 Years of WordPress
WordPress % of Internet
Extrapolated Terribly to # Sites
| Year | Percent |
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| 2011-02-01 | 13.1 |
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| 2012-02-01 | 15.8 |
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| 2013-02-01 | 17.4 |
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| 2014-02-01 | 21 |
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| 2015-02-01 | 23.3 |
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| 2016-02-01 | 25.6 |
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| 2017-02-01 | 27.3 |
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| 2017-05-01 | 27.7 |
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| 2017-08-01 | 28.3 |
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| 2017-11-01 | 28.7 |
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| 2018-02-01 | 29.2 |
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| 2018-03-01 | 29.4 |
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| 2018-04-01 | 29.9 |
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| 2018-05-01 | 30.4 |
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| 2018-06-01 | 30.7 |
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| 2018-07-01 | 30.9 |
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| 2018-08-01 | 31.1 |
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| 2018-08-30 | 31.4 |
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| Year | Sites |
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| 2011-02-01 | 45326576.793 |
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| 2012-02-01 | 110140139.262 |
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| 2013-02-01 | 117099421.842 |
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| 2014-02-01 | 203465315.13 |
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| 2015-02-01 | 201103616.916 |
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| 2016-02-01 | 267656910.848 |
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| 2017-02-01 | 482370909.384 |
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| 2018-08-30 | 596395224.9 |
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Lesson 2:
Reassess Regularly
Volunteer Security Team
Can you even do this?
Lesson 3:
Volunteers are Hard
How Do We Make a Volunteer Team Work?
Hybrid
Mostly Volunteer
Lesson 5:
Relationships are Important
