Best WordPress Security Plugins

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Devi Mounika January 8, 2018

Here is the list of best WordPress security plugins.Everyone who is aware of blogging is
very much familiar with WordPress. Here we are going to know about some best
WordPress security plugins, which can make your website more secure from being hacked.
These WordPress Plugins are bits of software that can change the functionality of your
WordPress site. So let us see them in detail. Here you need to know one more thing that is
you can anytime install or uninstall these plugins from your admin area. For this, you need
to follow some simple steps.

Here Is The List Of Some Best WordPress Security Plugins

Sucuri

Sucuri is the free security plugin for WordPress. This is provided to all the WordPress users
for free and is meant to complement the existing outlook. There are some unique features
offered by this plugin to increase the positive effect on things that are related to security.
They are

Security Activity Auditing: This monitor all the security-related issue is WordPress. This
feature allows you to keep an eye on various things that are happening on your website.
The attacker cannot wipe all the data and prevent further security analysis after a
compromise. Sucuri Security Operations Center will keep your entire data safe along with
the login details.

File Integrity Monitoring: This is the essential security feature worldwide with most
primary host intrusion detection systems. It will have the information about plugins, themes
and core files.

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Remote Malware Scanning: Free Security Scanner is providing this powerful scanning
engine which is vital to understand how the scanner works. More information regarding this
will be found in further steps.

Blacklist Monitoring: This security blocklist is including Sucuri Labs, Google safe
browsing, Norton, AVG, Phish Tank, ESET, McAfee site advisor, Yandex, Spamhaus,
Bitdefender, etc. Considering all the above things they can tell us whether anything is
flagging negatively on your website regarding security-related issues.

Effective Security Hardening: Using this 100% clean will take place on websites every
day. Most effective security presentations are added in this section which complements the
entire Sucuri suite products.

Post hack security Actions: This feature can be used when something is going wrong
inevitably on your site. Once this is checked in it will help you resolve all the security
problems.

Security Notifications: These notifications keep you updated about your site time to time
when something goes wrong at any point in time. Even though you have all another thing
active and this feature inactive, then it is a waste. According to your choice, you can set the
alert settings.

Website Firewall: This feature can protect you from many things such as DOS/DDOS
attacks, zero-day disclosure patches, exploitation of software vulnerabilities and brute force
attacks your control.

How to install this plugin – Sucuri:

Installation of this plugin will take just a few minutes and also very simple.

Step into you WordPress Administration Panel then in the plugins category click on
“Add New.”
In the input box search for “Sucuri” there you can find “Sucuri Security – Auditing,
Malware Scanner and Security Hardening.”
Once you click on it, you will be redirected to the next page where you will Find
“Activate Plugin.”
Then you find “Generate API Key” by clicking on it;
You will start the process of plugin installation which will be confirmed by the popup.

Wordfence

For your website what all security standards you expect to see on your site are available in
Wordfence. A naturally updated threat defense feed it stands in the first position to protect
your site from hackers. From your live traffic view, it is easy for Wordfence to stop the
attempts of hackers in every step by them. This service is 100% free and can provide you
premium support, country blocking, scheduled scans and many other things including the IP
address of the website for any other spamvertize.As there are good and bad in everything
here, also there are some features that we need to see whether good or bad.

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Pros: It has so many features which you cannot even count them. To increase the
protection levels, the plugin is being regularly updated. You can choose either free or
premium version depending on your demand or what you are willing to do. For this plugin
you need not feel discomfort in the updating it, there is the technical support that will always
be ready to help you.

Cons: While you opt for technical support you need to wait till some representative takes
your call and answer your questions or doubts. You may not find the exact results that are
expecting if you will not install the plugin correctly. Sometimes without any warning, the
plugin will shut down which is caused due to wrong inputs or any other changes.

BulletProof Security

This plugin is providing many options to the users on security-related issues. Using this you
can keep your site safe from hackers. One of those options is Security Status, which allows
you to check the file permissions for the core folders and records. The status of the archive
will be verified on the server and show specific .htaccess file security measures. Next
comes Security log which will enable the Error log for your WordPress website. From the
security log section, you can also delete the record when it exceeds the limit.

Systems info is the option where you can find the server related issues like Server,
Opcode, Cache, Accelerators, IP information, Database, PHP server and BPS Pro Server,
which are used to analyze the security risks. There is another option called Backup and
Restore which allows you to backup .htaccess files when they become corrupted when it is
tried to hack.

Through the plugin, you can edit or update the information or even lock to prevent writing
on it. You can do this by directly editing the code. Maintenance mode is also an excellent
option where you can edit the website keeping it in Maintenance mode. You can also put
your text on the screen.

How to Install: First you need to login to WordPress dashboard and navigate to Plugins
section. There you can find Add new and search for security then click on Install Now. Once
the plugin is installed then click on Activate Plugin.

iThemes Security

There are about 30+ features in the iThemes plugin to protect your WordPress site.
Hackers are increasing day by day. Nearly 30,000 websites are being hacked on each day
to target these hackers iThemes plugin is very helpful. Tom Kibble Chennai physicist whose
role is crucial in the theory of Higgs Boson died on Thursday. He is 83 years old, and Prof.
Kibble is working with Blackett Laboratory at Imperial College.

“After Peter Higgs formulated his groundbreaking mechanism for the [simpler] Abelian
gauge theories, in 1964, Tom Kibble came up with a more general version for non-Abelian
gauge theories, in 1967. This immediately led Weinberg to make the connection and
postulate the Higgs Mechanism. Kibble’s contribution was crucial in making Weinberg see
the connection,” says G. Rajasekaran, a leading particle physicist from Chennai.Prof.
Kibble was awarded and honored several times including the Order of British Empire and

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Albert Einstein Medal. It is surprising that he is not granted Nobel prize in the year 2013 for
his discovery of Higgs Boson which reached Peter Higgs and Francois Englebert and
worried them. Prof. Kibble is done excellent work on cosmic strings.

“While Professor [Walter] Kibble, with a Mathematics Tripos (Cambridge University), and
Doctorate in Statistics (Edinburgh), contributed to the growth of the Mathematics
Department in the College, Janet served as the first warden of the women’s hostel in
Guindy,” Mr. Kalapati said.

All in One WordPress Security Plugin

This is the WordPress security plugin will take your website to the next level. To install or
makes changes to this plugin it is not that hard and not a complicated task with .htaccess
rules. Even though the interface of WordPress is very easy and straightforward, there are
some users still complaints about plugins that will make their work accessible. Here this
plugin will inspect your site regarding the security features of your site.

This plugin will categorize the elements into three types like Basic, Intermediate, and
Advanced. These features will safely enable some security features without breaking the
functionality of your site. Once you start your plugin by clicking Activate button from that
time it is taking care of your website is security related issues.

Install: First you need to download “All-in-one-wp-security” plugin, and then upload the .zip
file in the plugins area. Go to Plugins click on Add New. Then activate the plugin in the
settings menu.

6Scan Security

If you want to protect your site from Hackers, this is the best option you can choose. 6Scan
security is the most valuable auto fix protection that you can provide to your website. This
plugin involves some sophisticated algorithms that can automatically fix the security issues.
Experts say that this plugin is always up to date and can perform with excellent results.

There are some significant things that this scanner finds and protect are SQL Injection,
Cross-site Scripting, CSRF, Directory traversal, Remote file inclusion and OWASP security
vulnerabilities. Also, there are some benefits with this plugin they are Automatic
Vulnerability Fix, Automatic Malware Fix, and One Click Installation, Web Application
Firewall, Brute force protection, Dual Scanning, Security Badge, Blacklist monitoring, top
security experts, and Research.

Install: Download the .zip file that containing plugin to your site on WordPress. Add New is
the option where you can upload the plugin. To start the process of installation and make
the plugin live click on activate the plugin. You can understand that the plugin is installed by
seeing the message at the top.

Acunetix Security

This plugin is WP security which is free and provides many features for it. Acunetix checks
your site for the safety vulnerabilities and suggests some actions like Passwords, File
Permissions, Database Security, Version hiding, WordPress admin protection, Removes
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WP Generator META tag. There are also some key features that are protecting your
website using this plugin.

Install: Before uploading any plugin what you need to do is to back up the present data of
the plugin. Now download the package and upload the extracted files for WP content,
plugins, directory.

Move Login

This feature of WordPress can forbid the present URL and create a new one which ends
with login or log out. The main translations of this plugin are US-French, French, Serbo-
Croatian, Hebrew. There are some requirements to install this plugin. Such as it should
work on IIS7+ servers Rewrite rules are not automatically written for Nginx servers.
Install: From the downloaded .zip file extract the plugin and upload of-move-login folder to
plugins directory. But before you install this plugin you need to check whether any other
plugin redirections are made. Otherwise, both will conflict with each other. Activate the
plugin with the necessary changes if needed with FTP access to the rules provided in the
settings page.

Google Authenticator

This plugin will give you two-factor authentications by using Google Authenticator app on
your smartphone for two-factor authentications on Gmail/Dropbox/LastPass/Amazon etc. If
you want to see your website on Android/iPhone app with any other software using
XMLRPC interface you can add App passwords to it. But sometimes these app passwords
may make your site less secure.

WP Antivirus Site Protection

This is the security plugin to detect malicious viruses and suspicious codes. This plugin will
backdoors, rootkits, Trojans horses, worms, fraud tools, adware, spyware, hidden links,
redirection, etc. There are some features in this plugin like deep scan on your website, virus
update, alert notifications by email, whitelist solution, check the security reports online and
brute force protection.

This scanner can detect these types of malware like MySQL and JavaScript injections,
Website defacements, Hidden iFrames, PHP Mailers, Social Engineering Attacks, Phishing
Page Detection, Redirects, website anomalies, drive-by downloads, cross-site scripting,
rootkits, Trojan horses, internet worms, and much more.

Hide my Site

You need to choose a single password to protect your WordPress site. The only way to log
on this site is with your unique password. For this what you need to do is go to settings and
click on hide my site and Enable password protection. You can also choose the duration
that one user can stay on your site.

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