Does Monarx replace backups?
No. Security and backups solve different problems. We strongly recommend maintaining regular backups even when Monarx protection is enabled.
MONARX COMPLETE PROTECTION
Smarter protection for your websites and servers
Monarx provides intelligent, always-on protection against malware, compromised websites and modern web attacks. It continuously detects, blocks and remediates threats across your hosting environment, helping stop security problems before they become major incidents.
Big Wet Fish Hosting is a Monarx Complete Protection Partner.
Why Monarx?
Protection that combines intelligent detection, real-time prevention, automatic remediation, server-level visibility and global threat intelligence.
Find threats traditional scanners can miss
Intelligent Malware Detection
Monarx combines behavioural analysis, cloud intelligence and advanced malware detection to identify malicious and compromised files, including threats that may be obfuscated or difficult for traditional signature-based scanners to recognise.
Find it. Fix it. Automatically.
Active Protection
With Active Protection enabled, Monarx can automatically remediate detected malware. Malicious files can be quarantined or removed, while malicious code injected into otherwise legitimate files can be cleaned without simply deleting the entire website file.
Stop attacks while they happen
Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP)
Monarx ThreatShield works inside the PHP runtime, giving it visibility into what an application is actually doing as code executes. This allows malicious behaviour, exploits and suspicious activity to be stopped in real time.
Block malicious traffic earlier
SmartWAF
SmartWAF adds another layer of protection by identifying and blocking malicious traffic before it reaches your application. It works alongside ThreatShield to combine network-level filtering with deep application-level intelligence.
Protection beyond your website files
Server Protection
Sophisticated malware does not always live inside a website directory. Monarx Server Protection can identify threats hiding in server processes, memory and scheduled tasks, helping prevent malware from persisting or regenerating after a website has been cleaned.
Protection that continually evolves
Global Threat Intelligence
Monarx-enabled servers contribute threat intelligence to the Global Honeynet and cloud platform. New attack behaviour identified across the network can improve protection for other Monarx-protected environments without resource-intensive analysis on each individual server.
THREATSHIELD
Security that can see what your application is actually doing
Traditional firewalls mainly inspect a request before it reaches the application. ThreatShield goes deeper by operating within the PHP runtime, giving Monarx additional context about how a request behaves once application code begins executing.
This helps Monarx identify and block attacks that may otherwise be hidden through obfuscation, encoding or other techniques.
Runtime Application Self-Protection
ThreatShield adds real-time application context while SmartWAF filters malicious traffic earlier in the request path.
Real-time attack blocking
Runtime Application Self-Protection
Virtual patching
SQL injection protection
Malicious file upload blocking
Brute-force protection
Reputation-based IP blocking
Malicious bot protection
Redirect protection
Form abuse protection
Authentication bypass protection
Protection against malicious administrator insertion
Protection against lateral compromise attempts
From detection to remediation
Detect
Monarx continuously analyses website and server files for malicious or compromised code.
Protect
ThreatShield and SmartWAF work in real time to stop malicious activity and known exploit techniques.
Remediate
Active Protection can automatically quarantine, remove or clean detected malware according to the protection policy applied to the server.
The objective is not simply to tell you that a website has been compromised. Monarx is designed to help stop the attack and deal with the malware as well.
Malware does not always stay inside public_html
Advanced compromises can use running processes, memory, scheduled tasks and other persistence techniques. Monarx Server Protection looks beyond public website files to help identify and stop these deeper threats.
Malicious Process Termination
Stops malicious processes being used to maintain access or restart malware.
In-Memory Threat Protection
Identifies malicious activity designed to live in memory rather than simply existing as a detectable file.
Malicious Cron Protection
Helps stop scheduled tasks being used to regenerate malware after files have been cleaned.
Anti-Cloaking & Persistence Protection
Designed to identify techniques attackers use to hide malware and maintain long-term access.
Enterprise-grade protection without unnecessary server overhead
Monarx has been designed specifically for Linux hosting environments. Much of the analysis and threat intelligence processing takes place within the Monarx cloud, reducing the amount of heavy processing required on the hosting server itself.
The local agent is designed to minimise CPU, memory and disk I/O impact and can adapt scanning activity when a server is under load.
Designed for Linux hosting environments
Continuous monitoring
Cloud-assisted threat analysis
Adaptive scanning
Centralised management
Per-server and per-user protection controls
API integration
Designed for shared hosting, VPS and dedicated servers
Works with modern hosting environments
Monarx provides native integrations for popular hosting control panels including cPanel/WHM, Plesk and DirectAdmin. Its API and central management platform also allow Monarx protection to be incorporated into other Linux hosting environments.
cPanel / WHM
Plesk
DirectAdmin
Extra protection for the applications attackers target most
WordPress and other PHP applications are frequent targets for automated attacks. Monarx adds additional layers of protection around the application, including malware detection, malicious upload inspection, exploit blocking and virtual protection against known vulnerabilities.
Security protection does not remove the need to keep WordPress, plugins, themes and other applications properly updated.
Security works best in layers.
Monarx complements regular software updates, secure hosting practices, off-server backups and other security controls. It does not replace them.
Managed Monarx protection
An additional managed security service supplied through Big Wet Fish Hosting. Pricing is per protected server, per month.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Monarx replace WordPress or software updates?
No. Monarx can block many attacks and provide virtual protection against known vulnerabilities, but websites and applications should still be kept properly patched and updated.
Will Monarx slow down my server?
Monarx is specifically designed for hosting environments and aims to minimise resource usage. Much of its analysis takes place using Monarx’s cloud infrastructure, and scanning can adapt when the hosting server is under load.
What happens when malware is detected?
Depending on the protection policy applied to the server, Monarx Active Protection can automatically quarantine or remove malicious files and can clean malicious injected code from compromised legitimate files.
Does Monarx only protect WordPress?
No. Monarx operates at the server and PHP application layers and is not simply a WordPress plugin. It can protect websites across a Linux hosting environment.
Does Monarx include a Web Application Firewall?
Yes. Monarx combines SmartWAF with ThreatShield runtime protection. SmartWAF can block malicious traffic earlier while ThreatShield analyses application behaviour from inside the PHP runtime.
Can Monarx protect an existing server?
Yes. Monarx can be deployed onto compatible existing Linux hosting servers as well as new Big Wet Fish server deployments.
Does Monarx guarantee that my website cannot be hacked?
No security product can provide that guarantee. Monarx adds multiple proactive protection, detection and remediation layers that substantially strengthen the security of a properly maintained hosting environment.
Give your server another layer of protection
Malware is increasingly automated, persistent and designed to avoid traditional security tools. Monarx combines intelligent detection, real-time attack prevention and automatic remediation to help keep your websites and hosting environment protected around the clock.