The Team

D.K. Smith, WPSecurity.com Co-founder

D.K. has been an Ecommerce and Digital Marketing consultant since 1998. He began using WordPress for affiliate and personal websites in early 2005, and started rolling out WordPress sites for his clients mid-year.

His security background goes back decades. In 1988 a U.S. defense contractor called him about doing some work with a piece of Air Force equipment.  Before they could deliver it however, the Air Force required a full background check for security purposes. D.K. told his client to let them know that several years prior, while working as a TV News videographer for a CBS station, he had covered the White House Tour of the First Lady of the United States.

Although sure he'd eventually receive clearance, D.K. was a bit surprised when the client called back in about twenty minutes and told him, "Yeah, they said you're okay. What time tomorrow do you want the ordnance delivered?"  The next day a small air-to-air missile arrived at his office... minus the part that goes boom of course.

D.K. didn't ask what level of security clearance he had however, we figure that if the U.S. Secret Service let him hang around the President's wife, and the U.S. Air Force allowed him to have one of their missiles at his office... he probably has a high enough clearance to work on WordPress sites.

Always security conscious, D.K. got very serious after several of his company's WordPress sites were hacked back in 2007. Since then he has lead the development of many WordPress security measures, culminating in the "multiple layers of security" techniques we employ today.

Tambra Bernal, WPSecurity.com co-founder

Tambra has been an active and successful affiliate marketer for four years. She began using WordPress from the start and none of her sites have been hacked so far.

Her security experience began when she passed an FBI background investigation and received "Top Secret" security clearance. Tambra's first job with a defense contractor was Administrator on the Space Warefare Center Operating Systems Contract.

Tambra was soon promoted to Operations Planning Coordinator, where she personally developed a manpower tracking system and database that smoothed operations and helped prevent over-tasking.

This success led to a stint as the interim Corporate Planning Management Officer and finally to the position of Assistant Facility Security Officer, with co-responsibilty for all classifed material at the location.

The only thing better than all that top-secret security work was her family, so Tambra left the world of defense contracting to start a successful daycare business, which allowed her to spend more time with her growing family.

A couple of years ago, after helping Tambra secure one of her WordPress affiliate sites, D.K. was pleasantly surprised when she emailed him several weeks later to say, "I re-coded this and did something else to that, and then came up with this other thing, which I think may be a better security solution. What do you think?"  All of which led to the collaboration that has become WPSecurity.com, the WordPress Security Pros.

Our Develpment Team, The WPSecurity.com Pros

The WordPress Security Pros' team consists of a small group of programmers located in the continental U.S. In addition to being top-notch professionals in their specialties, each team member has worked with either D.K. or Tambra for at least two years.

All WPSecurity.com coders and developers are required to submit photographic ID in the form of a valid driver's license or U.S. Passport.  A background check is then conducted by a licensed investigator in their home state.

In addition, each person must sign a notarized confidentiality and non-disclosure agreement that requires them to keep all of our clients' information completely confidential.

Why such stringent procedures?

Keeping hackers out of your site gives D.K. and Tambra more than enough to think about. They decided they'd sleep better knowing exactly who they were working with... and by letting their team know up-front that they take security seriously.

Please don't hesitate to call or email them if you have any questions about the team, and what they can do to help you secure your WordPress site.