Industrial website security
Secure public and private platforms

Industrial website security
for B2B platforms and portals

Security belongs in platform design, particularly where product data, partner access and customer information meet.

We build and improve secure industrial websites and portals through sensible architecture, access control, update discipline, hosting practice and a controlled release process. The aim is a proportionate security model matched to what the platform holds and who reaches it, from a public product catalogue to a distributor area carrying customer-specific pricing and restricted technical documentation.

Scope
What is included

Security designed into the way the platform operates

Understand the exposure before choosing controls

Industrial website security starts from what the platform is. A public marketing site, a technical document library and a distributor portal with account-level pricing do not carry the same risk, and applying the same checklist to all three wastes effort at one end and leaves gaps at the other. We assess who uses the platform, what data it holds, which systems it connects to, where it is hosted and who holds operational responsibility for each part, so the security work is proportionate and traceable back to a real exposure.

Access and updates need clear ownership

Dependable security rests on practical routines: least-privilege access, scheduled patching, verified backups, monitoring, tested updates and controlled deployment. On long-lived industrial platforms the weak point is usually ownership rather than technology, since accounts, integrations and hosting were set up by people who have since moved on. We set out what the internal team should hold, what belongs with the delivery or hosting partner, and how the boundary is reviewed as the platform changes.

Hardened, and ready for review

We harden and maintain the platforms we build and run, and set them up so whoever performs your penetration testing, customer security questionnaire or certification audit has a clean, well-documented platform to assess. That includes an inventory of components and versions, a record of who holds which access, documented backup and recovery procedures, and a change history that can be read by someone from outside the project.

case studies

Clients who trust us

Industrial and technical B2B companies we build and maintain platforms for.
Industrial B2B digital platforms

A decade of digital work
for industrial and technical B2B

Code Industrial is the industrial B2B practice of Code Barcelona, an agency building corporate websites and digital platforms since 2015. The same strategy, design and engineering team works on every industrial project, from the first scoping session through to life after launch.

19
industrial sectors we serve
1.550
technical documents migrated in one project, permissions and URLs intact
+10
years of digital delivery for industrial B2B
Security by segment
Who needs it

What an industrial site
is exposing

The asset worth protecting differs by business: product data, technical documents, customer accounts, connected systems or commercial continuity. Industrial website security starts from what the platform holds and how it is operated.

Security process
Four stages

How we handle industrial
website security

Four workstreams. In industrial website security, routine operational controls close most of the avoidable exposure.

AUDIT
01
01

What is running and who has access

We establish the current state, which routinely differs from the documented one: versions, dependencies, accounts, integrations and where the backups really are.

What we review

We review platform and dependency versions against what is current, and list every administrator and editor account rather than trusting the last documented headcount. Integrations and their stored credentials are checked directly, hosting configuration is reviewed for anything left at a default, and backup state is verified by inspection rather than assumed correct because a job report said so.

Result

The audit produces a definitive inventory, and it regularly identifies administrator accounts belonging to former employees or to agencies that stopped working with the company years ago.

HARDENING
02
02

Reducing what is exposed

Most hardening is removal: unused plugins, dormant accounts, unnecessary endpoints and permissions wider than the role requires.

What we change

We remove plugins and components no longer in use, since each one remains a possible entry point whether or not it is active. Permissions are reduced to what each role requires, administrative access is restricted to where it should be reachable from, transport and security header configuration is tightened, and rate limiting is applied to public forms to blunt automated abuse.

Result

The platform ends up with fewer moving parts that could go wrong, mostly through removing what was unnecessary rather than layering defensive tooling on top of it.

ACCESS REVIEW
03
03

Accounts reviewed on a schedule

Access granted once and never reviewed is a common weakness on any long-lived platform, and among the easiest to address through clear account governance.

What we establish

We establish a current answer to who holds which role, and set a periodic review cycle so that answer does not go stale again. An offboarding step is put in place so access is removed the day someone leaves rather than whenever it is remembered, and distributor or partner accounts are checked to confirm that access lapses automatically when it should instead of persisting indefinitely.

Result

If asked tomorrow who holds administrator access, your team has a documented answer. That basic ownership is one of the most valuable and most frequently overlooked controls on a long-lived industrial website.

MONITORING AND RECOVERY
04
04

Assuming something will eventually go wrong

Prevention is not a plan on its own. Detection and a tested recovery path are what turn an incident into an inconvenience.

What we operate

We monitor for unexpected file and configuration changes and alert on access patterns that look anomalous, rather than waiting for a visible symptom. Backups are periodically restored to confirm they work, and we document a recovery procedure your own team can follow even if we are not immediately reachable, including which system owner needs to be contacted for each connected integration.

Result

If the worst happens, the recovery has been rehearsed at least once, so it is a known procedure rather than something worked out for the first time under pressure.

Industrial website security FAQ

What IT, engineering and compliance teams ask about platform security.

What does industrial website security work usually cover?

The appropriate scope depends on the platform. It can include secure hosting, patching, verified backups, access controls and role review, hardening, monitoring, review of ERP or PIM integrations and their stored credentials, and a controlled release process. We scope it from the real exposure and the ownership model, and say plainly which items are quick corrections and which need a project behind them.

Can you secure an existing WordPress website or distributor portal?

Yes. We begin with a technical and operational review covering versions, accounts, integrations, hosting and backups, prioritise the material issues, and set out a route to remediation and ongoing management suited to the platform. Where a portal holds customer-specific data, the access model is tested role by role, since that is where findings tend to concentrate on builds that have been extended over several years.

What about the personal data in our portal?

You remain the data controller. We build and operate to the requirements your data protection officer sets, implement retention and deletion as specified, and act as a processor within that arrangement. Where a portal collects contact details for distributor or partner accounts, we document what is stored, where it is stored and how long it is kept, so the record is available when a customer or auditor asks.

Can you review a site you did not build?

Yes, and it is a common starting point. Sometimes the fair conclusion is that hardening the existing build costs more than replacing it, particularly where the platform is several major versions behind and the customisations were written against interfaces that have since changed. We say so when that is the case, and set out both routes with their cost and their risk rather than defaulting to a rebuild.

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Industrial platform security

Make security
an operating discipline

Tell us what the platform does, who uses it and which systems it connects to. We will define a proportionate industrial website security review and a delivery plan to match.

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