Jetpack by WordPress.com
Jetpack is a free plugin, it allows you to protect yourself against traditional brute force attacks and distributed brute force attacks that use many servers against your site. It also monitors your site for downtime and keeps your plugins updated. Jetpack’s botnet security features work automatically when you install Jetpack 3.4 or above and connect Jetpack to your WordPress.com account.
With botnet protection in place via Jetpack Protect, your site will block unwanted login attempts. You can view a count of attacks to your site with a widget in your self-hosted site’s dashboard.
Plugin features allow to
Enable Jetpack Protect’s security features
Adjust your security settings and configurations
Unblock and whitelist your IP address
Plugin Requirements & Stats
Requires: 4.2 or higher
Compatible up to: 4.3.1
Last Updated: 3 weeks ago
Active Installs: 1+ million
Wordfence Security
Wordfence starts by checking if your site is already infected. We do a deep server-side scan of your source code comparing it to the Official WordPress repository for core, themes and plugins. Then Wordfence secures your site and makes it up to 50 times faster. Wordfence Security is 100% free and open source.
Wordfence Security provides the following features
Blocking Features
–Real-time blocking
–Block entire malicious networks
–Rate limit or block security threats
–Block or throttle users and robots
Login Security
–Two Factor Authentication
–Cellphone Sign-in
–Enforce strong passwords
–Lockout brute force hacks
Security Scanning
–HeartBleed vulnerability
–Scans core files, themes, and plugins
–Optionally repair changed files
–Scans for signatures
–It scans Backdoors like C99, R57, RootShell, Crystal Shell, Matamu, Cybershell, W4cking, Sniper, Predator, Jackal, Phantasma, GFS, Dive, Dx
–Also scans Malware and Phishing URL’s
WordPress Firewall
–Block Security Threats like fake Googlebots, malicious hackers scans, and botnets
Monitoring Features
–Real-Time Traffic Monitoring
–Geographic Area Monitoring
–Monitor your DNS security
–Monitors disk space
Multi-Site Security
Caching Features
IPv6 Compatible
Major Theme and Plugins Supported
Also offer a Premium API key that gives you Premium Support, Country Blocking, Scheduled Scans, Password Auditing and checks if your website IP address is being used to Spamvertised.
Plugin Requirements & Stats
Requires: 3.9 or higher
Compatible up to: 4.3.1
Last Updated: 1 month ago
Active Installs: 1+ million
iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security)
iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security) gives you over 30+ ways to secure and protect your WordPress site. On average, 30,000 new websites are hacked each day. WordPress sites can be an easy target for attacks because of plugin vulnerabilities, weak passwords, and obsolete software.
Pro Features:
User Action Logging
Two-Factor Authentication
Import/Export Settings
Malware Scan Scheduling
Password Expiration
Generate Strong Passwords
Dashboard Widget
Online File Comparison
Temporary Privilege Escalation
wp-cli Integration
Google reCAPTCHA
iThemes Sync Integration
iThemes Brute Force Protection Network
Plugin Requirements & Stats
Requires: 4.1 or higher
Compatible up to: 4.3.1
Last Updated: 2 weeks ago
Active Installs: 700,000+
All In One WP Security & Firewall
A comprehensive, user-friendly, all in one WordPress security and firewall plugin for your WordPress site. The All In One WordPress Security plugin will take your website security to a whole new level. 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 All In One WordPress Security plugin doesn’t slow down your site and it is 100% free.
List of the security and firewall features offered by the plugin
User Accounts Security
File System Security
User Registration Security
Database Security
User Login Security
Blacklist Functionality
Firewall Functionality
Access control facility.
Brute force login attack prevention
Security Scanner
Comment SPAM Security
Front-end Text Copy Protection
Works with Most Popular WordPress Plugins
Translations – English, German, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Swedish, Russian, Chinese, Portuguese (Brazil), Persian,
Plugin Requirements & Stats
Requires: 3.5 or higher
Compatible up to: 4.3.1
Last Updated: 2 months ago
Active Installs: 200,000+
Sucuri Security – Auditing, Malware Scanner and Security Hardening
Sucuri Security WordPress Security plugin is free to all WordPress users. It is a security suite meant to complement your existing security posture. It offers it’s users four key security features for their website, each designed to have a positive effect on their security posture:
Significant features come with the plugin are:
Security Activity Auditing
File Integrity Monitoring
Remote Malware Scanning
Blacklist Monitoring
Effective Security Hardening
Post-Hack Security Actions
Security Notifications
Website Firewall (add on)
Plugin Requirements & Stats
Requires: 3.2 or higher
Compatible up to: 4.2.5
Last Updated: 4 months ago
Active Installs: 200,000+
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