A half and year taught us that WordPress security shouldn't be taken lightly by any means. Between 15% and 20% of the world's high traffic sites are powered by WordPress. The fact it is an Open Source platform and everybody has access to its Source Code makes it a prey for hackers.
WordPress cloning, as it applies to secure your wordpress site, is the act of making an exact replica of your WordPress install. What's great is that you can do it in only a few clicks. There are a number of reasons. Here are only a few.
Should the server of your site go down for will go with this. You will make no sales, get signups or no visitors to your site, until you have the website back up 32, and in short, you're out of business.
Yes, you need to do regular backups of your site. I recommend at least a weekly database backup and a monthly "full" backup. More, if at all possible. Definitely if you make changes and additions to your site. If you have a community of people which are in there all the time, or make changes multiple times a day, a daily backup should be a minimum.
Install the WordPress Firewall Plugin. Prevent and this plugin investigates web requests to identify attacks.
These are. Put a blank Index.html file in your folders, run your web host security scan Resources and backup your entire account.