Deciphering passwords in WordPress

Shubham Gupta

Shubham Gupta is a Cyber Security Engineer, with more than 7 years of experience in the Security domain. He has worked extensively on writing WordPress Security plugins like Single Sign On into WordPress, 2FA on WordPress login, LDAP and many others. He also contribute to miniOrange’s Identity & Access Management Product. He has hands-on experience in safeguarding WordPress sites through Single Sign On, OTP and vulnerability scanner plugins.

Shubham Gupta love reading and understanding Cryptography and Mathematics behind it. He has taken sessions on Advanced Encryption Standard and RSA algorithms and their Applications

Deciphering passwords in WordPress

Understanding how passwords are created and stored in WordPress. Generating unique passwords for every new WordPress instance to improve the security of WordPress logins.
By understanding the existing mechanisms and incorporating these improvements, WordPress users and administrators can significantly enhance the security of their environments, protecting their sites and user data from potential threats in case of a compromised Database how to keep your passwords and WordPress admin access protected

In this session, He will explain the PHPass hashing algorithm, where the passwords are stored in WordPress. Some ways to generate stronger passwords and add security via 2FA on top.

Book your ticket to join us on 21th July 2024.