Secure Your WordPress Website using Plugins

Own a WordPress site?   

Its security is the first thing that one should be concerned about, Despite the fact it is the most used CMS, WordPress sites are favorite targets of hackers.  

Worried about backups, Plugins may help you to automate this hectic process of taking regular backups.  

At Mamsys, getting the exact solutions to security and backup is easy by discussing them with expert developers. This blog enlightens the requirement of security plugins in WordPress sites, and which one is the best fit for a specific website.  

Connect with WordPress experts to discuss your concerns and get a technical perspective to see the issues. 

Is WordPress Security Plugin Required 

WordPress is an open-source project, which makes it more vulnerable, as anyone may study the structure of the website. On Average, a WordPress site is attacked approximately 44 times a day.  

If any of that attacks succeed, it may seriously hurt the business. First of all, use secure hosting, but that’s not enough. It may not secure a website from all types of threats.  

If there is a tech able to implement all the security modules on your site then fine, but if anything is missed it will be a critical issue. 

What are the threats?

Several threats are there which may be easily tackled with the use of plugins, listed below. 

1. Brute force Attack 
2. SQL Injection  
3. Malware 
4. Cross-site Scripting  
5. DDoS Attack 

Above mentioned threats are managed by lots of plugins in the market for WordPress, again make a note to download any plugin only from a safe source. 

Not just the security threats but also plugins may be used for monitoring the server resources, getting an idea of the volume and the consumption of the resources may help to predict the upgrade requirement to the server hardware or bandwidth of the internet. 

Many tools are available to monitor traffic and user activity on a website, such as Google Analytics and Hotjar. These tools help us in checking the flow of the users across a website along with some meta-information about its users like their geographical locations, gender, age group, etc. This helps in the optimization of content and the website’s overall performance too. 

How plugins secure my WordPress site 

To enhance the functionality of the WordPress modules plugins are used, lots of plugins are available to add extra layers of security in the Application layer, they will clear scan for any malicious content/code on your server. 

Plugins may stop excessive hits by limiting the number of persistent connections from an IP. Some plugins are developed to manage caches which dramatically reduces the server loads. 

Regularly creating site backup is an important mitigation task because it will help recover your site after incidents, such as cyberattacks or damage to the data center. The backup file should include an entire WordPress file, like the database and the WordPress core files. 

With WordPress, backing up a site can be done using a plugin like All-in-One WP Migration. 

All WordPress websites have the same default login URL – yourdomain.com/wp-admin. Using the default login URL makes it easy for hackers to target the login page. 

Plugins like WPS Hide Login and change wp-admin Login enable custom login URL settings. 

What are the Best Security Plugins 

From a long list of the plugins available on the web, here is the list of several tried and tested plugins that perform well and are reliable to secure a site from vulnerabilities. 

1. Sucuri  
2. WPS Hide Login  
3. WPS Limit Login  
4. Wordfence Security 
5. iThemes Security Pro 
6. Jetpack Security 
7. WPScan 
8. Wordfence 
9. BulletProof Security 
10. All In One WP Security & Firewall 
11. Google Authenticator 

Google Authenticator is a very useful plugin to authenticate users while logging in to the admin console, it enables 2-FA (factor authentication) on a website to validate the user logins. 

Free Vs Paid plugins 

It is up to the value of a website and the risk of hacking, A website with lots of customer data is very vulnerable and important to be secured from any cyber-attack, because any data leaks may cause major loss to its users and to the site-owner as well.  

While if it is just a content-based website it may not have lots of crucial data which a hacker may want to steal.  

Check and resolve your site’s vulnerabilities with a WordPress Expert. 

Mamsys Digital Services

MAMSYS (Modern Age Molecular SYStem) is a global ‘Information Technology Services and Consulting company headquartered in Solon, Ohio, United States, providing technology enablement solutions to its esteemed global customers (based in the USA, UK, EU, and India) for more than 10 years. The high degree of customer satisfaction resulted in more than 80% of repeat customers. The leadership team of Mamsys includes industry experts having worked for world-class fortune 500 companies managing the global implementation of enterprise-wide IT (Information Technology) solutions.  

We have served in multiple business domains like: 

• Healthcare Services 
• Medical Devices  
• Retail  
• Manufacturing  
• Telecom  
• Banking & Financial Services  
• Insurance  
• High Tech IT  

In the past two years, Mamsys has produced more than 20 WordPress-based solutions, with a high degree of scalability and customer stratification.   

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