Best Security Plugins to Keep Your WordPress Website

in wordpress •  6 years ago  (edited)

As we already know that WordPress is a safe platform we are not completely safe from the people having spiteful intent. The popularity of WordPress makes it one of the most interesting targets for hackers. The huge number of plugin availability is the reason behind its popularity.

Sucuri security
It is one of the most popular full-featured security plugin offering lots of security features like easy to use types of monitoring tools. The plugin is free to all WordPress users and is used to complement the existing security posture for creating a positive posture. It includes security activity auditing, file integrity monitoring, remote malware scanning, blacklist monitoring etc.
Features;

  1. Continuous malware scanning
  2. Stopping hacks and attacks immediately
  3. Support and help for accessing hacked websites.

BulletProof Security
The popular solution protects your website. Strong protection against SQL injections are its main attraction. The plugin provides a firewall that takes care of any malicious script from executing before reaching any WordPress core files. A premium version is available that offers wide interesting features.
Features;

  1. Allows you to perform complete and partial backups of database.
  2. Prevention from occurring brute-force attacks.
  3. Provide alertments when a suspected malicious activity affects your site.

Google Authenticator
The Google Authenticator plugin for WordPress gives two-factor authentication using the Google Authenticator app like Android/iPhone/Blackberry. This plugin is very simple to use and scanning a QR code using a mobile device.
Features:

  1. Log into your websites if you aren’t able to utilize 2FA.
  2. Customize your own set of security questions on login.

UpdraftPlus
This plugin helps to simplify backup and restoration. It is the most popular backup plugin, with millions of active installs. These backup files are stored in the cloud storage solution like Dropbox and Google drives and restore with a single click.
Features:

  1. Supports both manual and automatic scheduled backups.
  2. Provides encryption to your backups.
  3. Enables you to upload your backups to any number of cloud storage providers.

Shield Security
Shield security is one of the easiest security plugins to setup to simply activate it. It has a beautiful, step-by-step wizard will walk through the basic configuration. Limit Login Attempts and Block Automatic Brute-Force Bots all are automatically. It has very powerful Core File Scanners it helps to automatically detect malicious file changes and hacks you’d never see.
Features:

  1. Blocks malicious URLs and their requests, along with automated spambot comments.
  2. Provides security against brute-force attacks.
  3. Audit Trail & User Activity Logging
  4. reCAPTCHA
  5. Firewall

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