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WordPress Security Plugins to secure your WordPress Website

santoshr25 — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 07:53:03 +0000

A WordPress security plugin is used to protect your WordPress site from malware, brute force attacks, and hacking attempts. We have hand-picked the best WordPress security plugins that you can use to protect your website.

So then what are the key factors that we need to look into when choosing a security plugin?

Essentially Security is applied at several levels. Most of the security systems and firewalls are applied at the server a level. But there are a few areas that you as a Website owner must be aware of and focus on:

404 Detection
Brute Force Protection
Enable HackRepair.com’s blacklist feature.
Enable strong password enforcement.
Remove the Windows Live Writer header
Remove the RSD (Really Simple Discovery) header
Reduce Comment Spam
Disable File Editor
Force users to choose a unique nickname
Disable a user’s author page if their post count is 0
Completely Disable XML-RPC
And more…

For your reference, we have listed down key security functions and the corresponding recommended plugins.

Business Goal	Needs	Solution
Security	Secure & Robust Environment by Hardening the Filesystem	While a firewall filters the requests to the website, the file system permissions are very critical to the security of your website. This is beautiful on the Solid Security plugin . The Solid Security plugin helps you literally lock down your filesystems using the HTACCESS file. Solid Security provides over 35 security settings to disable or enable several aspects of your wordpress website
	Web Application Firewall (WAF)	A firewall functions by screening in-coming requests to your website and sending in the valid ones and blocking spam and unwanted traffic. This can be accomplished with the WordFence plugin WordFence provides a great firewall protection & malware scanning for your website on their free plans.

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Solid Security Plugin

santoshr25 — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 07:50:37 +0000

Why Use Solid Security plugin?

The Solid Security plugin offers 30+ methods to steady and shield your WordPress website. In this guide, we stroll through all the Solid Security plugin settings with an in-intensity clarification of the features. WPSkillset Hosting’s Managed WordPress Hosting comes with pre-installed Solid Security on our Plugin & Theme Sets.

Solid Security Video 1:

Watch this video tutorial by the Plugin Author on how to install & setup the Solid Security plugin to safeguard your Website. WPSkillset Hosting’s Managed WordPress Hosting automatically set are they Solid Security for your website

Solid Security Video 2:

Watch this video tutorial by the Plugin Author on how to install & setup the Solid Security plugin

Learn More About WordPress Plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/ Learn more about Solid Security plugin here: https://ithemeshelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/200147050-iThemes-Security

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Wordfence Firewall

santoshr25 — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 07:20:25 +0000

Why Use Wordfence Firewall?

Wordfence Web Application Firewall

Wordfence is an application level firewall that blocks out malicious requests to your site. The Wordfence Web Application Firewall safegurad against a variety of of common web-based attacks as well as a large amount of attacks specifically focused at WordPress and WordPress themes and plugins

Malware Scan

Wordfence includes an endpoint firewall and malware scanner that is built to guard WordPress. Threat Defense Feed empowers Wordfence with the latest firewall rules, malware signatures and malicious IP addresses to keep your website safe.

WPSkillset Hosting’s Managed WordPress Hosting comes with pre-installed Wordfence on our Plugin & Theme Sets.

Wordfence Video 1:

Watch this video tutorial by the Plugin Author on how to install & setup the Wordfence plugin to safeguard your Website. WPSkillset Hosting’s Managed WordPress Hosting automatically set are they Wordfence security for your website

Wordfence Video 2:

Watch this video tutorial by the Web Monkey on how to install & setup Wordfence plugin.

Learn more about WordPress plugin here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/

Learn more about Wordfence plugin here: https://www.wordfence.com/help/

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