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Website Recovery & Hardening

Your website has been hacked or defaced.

Red Airship assesses what happened, contains the immediate risk and advises you on the right recovery route for your website.

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What Website Recovery & Hardening covers

Red Airship's Website Recovery & Hardening solution is built to remediate an active compromise, keep your site visible throughout, and close the vulnerabilities attackers used to get in, ensuring no damage left behind.

What Business Owners & IT teams should know

A visible defacement may be only one symptom of a wider compromise. We help determine what is known, what remains uncertain and what needs to happen next, without assuming every website can be recovered in the same way.

The threat itself isn't new. What's changed is the cost of finding it. AI has made it cheap to scan for and exploit vulnerabilities at scale, so attackers no longer need a reason to target you specifically. Sites that were once too small or obscure to attract attention are getting swept up alongside high-profile targets, and we're seeing more sites compromised every day as a result.

For business owners · For IT managers · For hacked websites across platforms

Leaving website attacks as is is not an option: search blacklist, attack platform, persistent access, reputation damage, data liability

What a compromised website actually costs you

The longer a compromised site stays live, the more it costs you.

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Search engines can label your site as dangerous, sending visitors straight to a competitor instead of waiting for a fix.

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A password reset will not lock an attacker out. Hidden admin accounts and backdoors let them walk straight back in, even after the problem seems solved.

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Hosting-level access lets an attacker return without touching your website again, so the risk does not end when the defacement disappears.

From initial assessment to a considered recovery plan

FirstAssessment and consultation

We establish the incident context, website requirements and available evidence, then recommend the next step.

Eligible sitesStatic Shield

Information-only website may be stabilised on a temporary static version within 3 working days once the required access is available. Final timeline depends on site complexity.

Scoped separatelyClean or rebuild

The longer-term recovery route, timeline and investment are agreed after containment.

Not sure which route applies to your site? Start with the assessment.

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Assess first. Then choose the right containment and recovery route.

Red Airship advises on suitability during consultation. The recommendation depends on how the site works, what evidence is available and the risk of leaving the compromised system online.

01Initial assessment

We discuss the incident, the website's functionality and the access available for investigation.

02Findings and consultation

We explain the known risks, the limits of the evidence and whether a temporary static Shield is suitable.

03Containment

Eligible information-only sites can move to a secure static version. Other sites require a tailored containment plan.

04Recovery decision

Once the immediate risk is controlled, choose whether to clean and retain the current system or invest in a rebuild.

Static Shield may suitInformation-only websites

A temporary static version is suitable only when every visitor receives the same public content.

Public pages and informational content
No visitor accounts or personalised views
No essential server-side transactions
Needs a tailored routeWebsites with dynamic functionality

If the site cannot operate as a static copy, Red Airship will assess the situation and advise on an appropriate containment or recovery route.

User login or customer portals
Ecommerce, memberships or accounts
Personalised or transactional experiences

Temporary containment option

What the static Shield does

For an eligible information-only website, we create a separate static version of the public content and serve it from a locked-down environment. This allows the compromised website software to be removed from public access while the business considers its longer-term recovery options.

It is deliberately temporary. It contains the immediate website risk; it does not decide whether the original system should be cleaned or replaced.

Important limitations

Visitors must receive the same content; login and personalised experiences are not supported.

Dynamic functionality may pause or require a separate solution.

Red Airship confirms suitability during consultation.

The three-working-day target depends on site complexity and applies only after scope, approval and required access are in place.

Why businesses work with Red Airship

We have recovered websites where attackers were inside for weeks before discovery, including automated defacement campaigns run by organised groups. We tell you what we find, even when that means "we cannot rule out data exposure." We would rather you know the real risk than feel falsely reassured.

Our experience building digital products for regulated industries adds an additional risk, governance and compliance lens to every recovery decision.

ISO certified

ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified. Independently audited quality and information-security management.

ISO 9001:2015 certified
ISO 27001:2022 certified

Performance improvements delivered by Red Airship

Faster website loading

Converting the website into a static site reduces server-side processing, improving load times by up to 10x.

Faster global access

Deploying the website on a global content delivery network enables pages to load quickly regardless of the visitor's location.

Near-instant directory search

Optimising the directory search enables results to be returned almost instantaneously.

Faster website-wide search

Improving the website-wide search increases its speed and responsiveness.

Improved stability and protection

Adding an external traffic-filtering layer and restricting access to the underlying content-management system reduces security exposure and the risk of performance disruption.

Quick assessment

Tell us what happened.

Answer three quick questions and we'll contact you about the next step.

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1. What happened to your website?
2. What type of website is it?
3. How is your website managed?

Please do not include passwords, access details or other sensitive information in this form.

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