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Quick Wins

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Purpose

This article highlights quick wins: straightforward changes that usually improve security posture with relatively little effort. The goal is to give administrators a short list of high-impact actions to tackle first, especially right after installing CMSSPM or running an initial scan.

Where to start

The best place to identify quick wins is the Overview Dashboard and the category pages for Core Security, Account Security, Browser Security, Email Security, and File Security. Focus on items that are easy to change, clearly described, and either heavily weighted or very common across many WordPress sites.

Typical quick wins

While every site is different, many environments share similar low-effort improvements. Examples include:

  • enabling or tightening built-in WordPress and plugin security options,
  • fixing obvious configuration warnings,
  • improving account-related protections such as strong passwords or admin account hygiene,
  • addressing simple misconfigurations that expose unnecessary information or services,
  • turning on security-related headers or browser protections when they are available from the host or web server.

These types of changes are often easier to implement than large redesigns or major architectural changes, but they still improve posture in meaningful ways.

How to identify them in findings

Within the findings shown by CMSSPM, quick wins are often:

  • clearly explained and directly actionable,
  • limited to a small number of settings or changes,
  • not dependent on major infrastructure changes,
  • issues that recur across many similar sites.

When reviewing findings, consider prioritizing changes that you can complete in minutes or hours and that obviously reduce exposure, even if they are not the most complex issues discovered.

Using quick wins as a starting plan

A practical way to use quick wins is to treat them as the first phase of your improvement plan:

  1. Run a scan and open the Overview Dashboard.
  2. Identify the easiest, highest-impact findings.
  3. Apply those changes and rescan.
  4. Confirm that the score and related findings have improved.
  5. Then move on to deeper or more complex remediation work.

This approach builds momentum, improves the posture score early, and reduces the number of trivial or avoidable issues before you invest time in larger projects.

Would you like this article to call out a short, opinionated “top five” list tailored to your current checks (for example, DMARC-related, browser header, or account-hardening items)?

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