Security update: Your website is being protected

On 21 October, critical security vulnerabilities affecting PHP, the technology behind WordPress and many other websites, required urgent action across the hosting industry.

Castlegate IT worked closely with our hosting providers to prepare for the necessary security updates. Importantly, our hosting partners and Cloudflare implemented additional firewall protections before the security patches were released, helping to protect websites against attempts to exploit these vulnerabilities.

The necessary patches have now been applied across our main managed hosting environments. A small number of legacy environments remain protected by additional firewall measures while their updates are completed.

No action is required from our clients. We continue to monitor the situation and manage the necessary security measures on their behalf.

THYME

The THYME Project is a new academic network intended to boost the bioeconomy in Yorkshire, the Humber, and the Tees Valley. We were asked to design and build a website to provide information about the project and allow researchers, academics, and industry representatives to get involved.

The resulting website provides an attractive design, clear access to information, and a complete network membership system. New members can sign up directly from the site, subject to administrator approval, and are provided with access to exclusive information about the project and its other members.

We used WordPress to manage content and user accounts, providing a solid and reliable foundation for the website. The design and the code of the custom theme used on the site are entirely bespoke, allowing us to build a system perfectly tailored to the needs of the client and the members of the network.

Learn more about our websites for academic networks.

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