Top three WordPress Security Plugins in 2020
WordPress is a perfect and secure platform to build and maintain a website. But the question arises "is it secure enough to face the world's best, deadly and scary attacks."
You don't want your website to be hacked, costing you millions.
We have used many security plugins on our site, and we ranked them on the results we got after installing and trying them all. Don't think it's a sponsored post, and we have not taken any amount from these plugins.
So here the countdown begins for top 3 WordPress security plugins in the year 2020:
Let's begin with the wordfence.
1. WORDFENCE
We have taken wordfence in the first position because it deserves the number one position when it comes to WordPress security.
Wordfence comes with many features, and the best part is providing Free WAF ( WordPress Application Firewall )
They provide value to the users because they give a lot of features in the FREE version compared to other security plugins.
Some of the unique features of the Wordfence security plugin:
Traffic Monitoring Module
It has a traffic monitoring module that logs all traffic coming to your website. It shows you if there is an attack on your website.
Can connect with Wordfence Central
It can be compared to the endpoint security software available in the market. When you connect your WordPress website with Wordfence central, it's getting secured from the remote server. It adds an extra layer of security.
Firewall
It has a Worpress Application Firewall that blocks the complex attacks like session hijacking, SQL injection attacks, directory traversal attacks. The WAF(WordPress Application Firewall) works by integrating with Core, and it gets initiated even before the WordPress files are loaded.
IP blocker
The good thing about Worfence is that it provides premium features like IP and country blocking, which other security plugins also provide, but they are not FREE.
Photo Credits-Wordfence
Wordfence brute force protection
This feature is capable of protecting your sites from hackers. We are using jetpack and wordfence brute force protection in conjunction, and it works great. We already had 56181 attacks stopped on our website through the combined use of Wordfence and Jetpack brute force protection.
Rate Limiting
Rate limiting is a feature that stops bot traffic, which is causing congestion in your network and thus impacting your website.
- Prevent users from registering 'admin' username if it doesn't exist
- Prevent discovery of usernames through '/?author=N' scans, the oEmbed API, and the WordPress REST API
- Block IPs who send POST requests with blank User-Agent and Referer
- Check password strength on profile update