Diagnostics & monitoring · Continuous site monitoring

Content integrity monitoring

We continuously watch the content of key pages and immediately warn you if it changed without your knowledge: text or price swapped, foreign links and inserts appeared, an important block vanished, signs of a hack or defacement. So you catch an unauthorized change at the moment, not when customers or the search engine see it. Honestly upfront: this is ongoing observation that detects changes and notifies — it does not protect the site from hacking and does not fix it — remediation and protection are a separate area.

Price
$2,000
Duration
setup usually 2–3 business days, then continuous operation on a monthly basis

Content integrity monitoring — overview

Content integrity monitoring — price, timeline & scope

Content integrity monitoring is an ongoing (monthly) service: we regularly capture the content of agreed pages (or their key blocks — price, contacts, texts, scripts) and compare against a fixed baseline. If something changed without your release — text or price swapped, inserted third-party links/scripts/redirects, spam content, a block disappearing, signs of defacement — you immediately get an alert with a diff. This helps quickly spot a hack, a quiet content corruption, and an accidental edit nobody noticed. Honestly about the essence: this is detection and alerting, NOT protection from hacking and NOT fixing — we do not close vulnerabilities, set up a WAF, clean an infection or roll back the site; that is done by your security/development team or by us separately. And honestly: integrity monitoring is an after-the-fact signal (the change has already happened), not prevention; it does not replace site protection (updates, access control, WAF, backups) but complements it with an early notice. False positives are possible on legitimate and dynamic changes (you updated the text yourself, personalization, A/B, widgets) — so we configure and update the baseline and the controlled zones by agreement. Coverage is only the configured pages and blocks; anything outside the list we do not see. Someone must react to an alert. An important boundary: this is control of content changes, not a security audit, not protection from attacks and not backup/recovery. If the site is simple, rarely changes and has no tampering risk, continuous monitoring may be overkill; but for stores (prices), landing pages and sites with sensitive content it pays off. Picture this: instead of "a swapped price / foreign links from a hack sat on the page for a week and it was noticed by chance" you get an alert at the moment of the change and react right away. The base price starts from 10,000 ₽ per month; it depends on the number of pages and blocks.

Problems we solve

  • You fear that after a hack foreign content appears on the site and you do not notice.
  • Prices or important blocks may change unnoticed (error/edit/tampering).
  • You learn about content corruption from customers or search, not first.
  • Content is edited by different people/CMS, and it is easy to break something quietly.

What's included in the Content integrity monitoring service

  • Capturing the content of agreed pages and blocks, comparison against a baseline
  • A diff of changes: what exactly changed
  • Control of text/price swaps, foreign links/scripts/redirects
  • Signs of defacement, spam inserts, disappearing blocks
  • Updating the baseline and controlled zones by agreement (fewer false positives)
  • Alerts on an unauthorized change
  • Monthly continuous operation
  • An alert channel of your choice (email, messenger, webhook)

What you get

  • You learn about a content swap at the moment, not from customers
  • You see exactly what changed (a diff)
  • You catch signs of a hack or quiet corruption earlier
  • You know what to roll back/clean (protection and remediation — separately)

How the work goes: steps

  • We agree on pages, key blocks, the baseline and the alert channel; collect access
  • We set up regular content capture and comparison against the baseline
  • We launch monitoring and update the baseline on legitimate changes

Why PDV Expert

  • Fixed price and timeline — no surprises on the invoice.
  • Report and recommendations in plain language — clear without a technical background.
  • In touch at every step and answering questions about the result.

FAQ

  • Is this protection from hacking?

    No. Integrity monitoring detects an already-occurred change and notifies, but it does not prevent a hack, close vulnerabilities or set up a WAF. It complements protection with an early signal but does not replace it (updates, access control, backups, WAF — separately).

  • Will you roll back the site and clean an infection?

    No, that is separate work. We detect a change and send an alert with a diff; remediation (rollback, cleanup, closing the vulnerability) is done by your security/development team or by us separately.

  • Will there be false alerts on our edits?

    They are possible — dynamic content, personalization, A/B and your own updates cause divergences. So we configure and update the baseline and controlled zones by agreement so real alarms do not drown in noise.

About the provider

The «Content integrity monitoring» service is provided by PDV Expert — a team specialising in «Diagnostics & monitoring». We work under contract and deliver a written report with recommendations.

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