If you have a WordPress website, security should be a primary concern of yours. In many cases WordPress blogs are at risk because of outdated plugins and files. These outdated files can be traced by hackers making them a prime choice. If you want to keep your blog away from the hackers make sure you are always up to date and ensure that good security plugins are installed.
1. Sucuri
Sucuri is a globally recognized authority in all matters related to website security, with specialization in WordPress Security. Sucuri comes with both free and paid versions. Free version comes with basic security which helps to harden WordPress security and allows to scan website for common threats.
Features of Sucuri are:
- Security Activity Auditing
- File Integrity Monitoring
- Remote Malware Scanning
- Blacklist Monitoring
- Effective Security Hardening
- Post-Hack Security Actions
- Security Notifications
- Website Firewall – Free trial for 30 days
Paid version comes with one of the best wordpress firewall protection. Firewall prevents websites from brute force, DDoS and Malware attacks. Moreover apart from security, they also provide global CDN which improves website speed by 70% on average with caching options.
Importantly they offer to clean malware affected websites at no extra cost.
2. Wordfence
Wordfence is another popular plugin for wordpress security. Similar to Sucuri, Wordfence also provides free and paid versions of the plugin. Free Version is good enough for small websites to provide robust security.
Features of Wordfence are:
- WordPress Firewall – Web Application Firewall identifies and blocks malicious traffic.
- Security Scanner – Malware scanner checks core files, themes and plugins for malware, bad URLs, backdoors, SEO spam, malicious redirects and code injections.
- Login Security – Two-factor authentication (2FA), one of the most secure forms of remote system authentication available via any TOTP-based authenticator app or service.
- Block logins for administrators using known compromised passwords.
- Login Captcha also available which prevents bots from logging in.
Features of Premium version are:
- Real-time firewall rule and malware signature updates via the Threat Defense Feed
- Real-time IP Blacklist blocks all requests from the most malicious IPs, protecting your site while reducing load.
- Checks to see if your site or IP have been blacklisted for malicious activity, generating spam or other security issue.
- Country Blocking – Designed to stop an attack, prevent content theft or end malicious activity that originates from a geographic region in less than 1/300,000th of a second.
3. iThemes Security
iThemes Security Plugin ( formerly known as Better WP Security ) protects WordPress website from attacks from 30+ ways. iThemes Security works to protect your site by blocking bad users and increasing the security of passwords and other vital information.
- Prevents brute force attacks by banning hosts and users with too many invalid login attempts
- Detects bots and other attempts to search for vulnerabilities.
- Run a scan for malware and blacklists on the homepage of your site.
- Changes the URLs for WordPress dashboard areas including login, admin and more
4. All In One WP Security & Firewall
The All In One WP Security & Firewall plugin is one of the most powerful and 100% free security plugin.
This plugin is designed and written by experts and is easy to use and understand.
It reduces security risk by checking for vulnerabilities, and by implementing and enforcing the latest recommended WordPress security practices and techniques. The plugin have features like User Account Security, User Login Security, User Registration Security, Database Security, File System Security, Security scanner etc. It also comes with basic Firwwall protection.
5. Astra Web Security
Astra Web Security is the go-to security suite for your WordPress website. With Astra, you don’t have to worry about any malware, credit card hack, SQLi, XSS, SEO Spam, comments spam, brute force & 100+ types of threats.
Astra’s vision is to make cyber security a five minute affair for businesses.
Astra’s promise to a business owner is that their business would be secure without any ifs or buts. If a business is using Astra, they will be secure – no questions asked.
Features of Astra are:
- Web Application Firewall (WAF)
- Robust community-powered security engine
- Real-time SQLi, XSS, LFI & 100+ threats protection
- Malware scanning & removal
- IP range blocking/whitelisting
- Code Injection protection
And Many more…
If you are looking for good and economical budget friendly security solution for your website then Astra is the perfect choice.
6. BulletProof Security
BulletProof Security plugin comes with free and paid versions. Like other security plugins we discussed above bulletproof security plugin also offers features like malware scanner, firewall protection, login security, database backup etc. This plugin is not so user friendly however it serves the purpose. The main benefit of pro version is once purchased it can be used on unlimited websites.
Some of the features are:
- MScan Malware Scanner
- .htaccess Website Security Protection (Firewalls)
- Login Security & Monitoring
- DB Backup
- DB Table Prefix Changer
7. Login Lockdown
The Login Lockdown plugin will assist you to lock attempts after a specified period of time and/or specified number of attempts to log in to your admin panel keeping your site that much more secure, because hackers can’t continue to try until successful
8. Antivirus
Antivirus is a popular security plugin which will assist you in keeping your WordPerss blog secured against viruses, malwares, and bots.
9. Block Bad Queries
This plugin attempts to block away all malicious queries attempted on your server and WordPress blog. It works in background, checking for excessively long request strings (i.e., greater than 255 chars), as well as the presence of either “eval(” or “base64” in the request URI.
10. Limit Login Attempts Reloaded
The Limit Login Attempts Reloaded plugin blocks the internet address from making any further attempts after a specified limit of retries has been reached. This plugin makes it more difficult for a hacker to use a brute-force attack.