Beyond Uptime: WP Engine’s Approach to Enterprise-Grade Security and Compliance 

For IT and development leaders, security for self-hosted WordPress® sites is a relentless operational burden. The constant cycle of patching, the complexity of maintaining compliance, and the anxiety of a zero-day exploit consume valuable engineering hours. This paper shifts the conversation from generalized “best practices” to a concrete, automated security strategy. Learn how to move your team’s focus from constant defense to confident digital acceleration.

What you’ll learn in this enterprise security guide

This white paper explores the architecture of a fully managed security solution, demonstrating how offloading infrastructure protection turns compliance into a strategic advantage.

1. The architecture of defense in depth

Security must be coordinated, not piecemeal. Examine how WP Engine’s proprietary framework operates across the entire stack to protect your application:

• The network edge: How our Managed WAF and advanced DDoS mitigation proactively stop the OWASP Top 10 before they consume origin resources.
• The application core: The specific tools we use to secure WordPress, including automated updates verified by Visual Regression Testing (VRT).
• The managed platform: How we eliminate the manual patching burden through automated maintenance and proactive threat detection.

2. Compliance as a strategic asset

Streamline your vendor risk assessments with verifiable proof of platform security.

• Accelerate procurement: Learn how independent audit reports provide the evidence your internal teams need to approve vendors quickly without deep proprietary investigations.
• Platform-level assurance: Discover how WP Engine’s ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification validates our systematic approach to security management, minimizing your exposure to regulatory risk.

3. The financial case for managed hosting

Move beyond anecdotal estimates and see the data on the financial drain of manual maintenance.

• The labor burden: See the calculations for the actual cost of diverting highly-paid developers away from innovation for non-scaling security tasks.
• The unfair advantage: Understand how offloading governance to WP Engine’s specialized, dedicated security team frees up your internal engineering capacity for strategic growth initiatives.

Stop spending your budget on reactive security labor. Download Beyond Uptime now to get the blueprint for automated, auditable, enterprise-grade WordPress security.