Website Security for Charities

A charity's website is its front door – for donations, referrals, volunteers and information. This course shows website owners and digital teams how to secure WordPress and other content management systems, hosting, domains, forms and donation pages, handle cookies and privacy correctly, and respond when a site is hacked or defaced.

Who this course is for: Digital, communications and web managers, website owners in small charities, IT leads and the agencies or volunteers who build and maintain charity websites. Basic familiarity with managing a website helps.

Self-paced online learning. Earn a Certificate of Completion on passing.

What you will learn

• Understand how charity websites are attacked and what is at stake
• Secure domains, DNS and hosting accounts
• Harden WordPress or other content management systems, including plugins and admin access
• Protect forms, donation pages and personal data collected online
• Meet cookie, privacy and accessibility expectations
• Monitor, back up and recover a website after an incident

Course modules

• The risks to charity websites
• Domains, DNS and hosting
• Securing WordPress and your CMS
• Forms, donations and personal data
• Cookies, privacy and accessibility
• Monitoring, backups and recovery