Secure Your Blog Setup Part 4

Here is a list of plugins that can help improve your site’s security.  I haven’t tried all of them so I can’t give an opinion as to their effectiveness.  But I got the list from  reliable and trusted sources.  My thanks to Brad Williams from Webdev Studios and Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr at Digging Into WordPress.

• Secure WordPress
Provides many important security measures, including protection against bad queries and complete removal of sensitive, auto-generated information.

• WP Security Scan
Scans your WordPress installation for known security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions. Features include passwords, permissions, and more.

• WP File Monitor
Scans your WordPress files for malicious code and notifies you with the results. When files are changed, moved, added or removed, this plugin lets you know.

• Ultimate Security Check
Scans for “hundreds of known threats” and grades security performance. Provides a great overview of your site’s security. And it’s incredibly easy to use.

• BlogSecurity’s WPIDS plugin
Detects attacks and blocks them. Each intrusion is clearly visible and an error is displayed, making administration easier than in previous versions.

• AskApache Password Protect
Protects your site by blocking automated attacks, spam, and other nonsense. Helps to secure wp-admin, wp-includes, wp-content, and plugins as well.

• WordPress Firewall
Blocks potential attacks based on a list of potentially suspicious parameters.

• Login Lockdown
Blocks the IP address of any user with too many failed login attempts.

• Stealth Login
Enables creation of custom URLs for logging in and other administrative tasks.

• Exploit Scanner
Searches your site’s files, plugins, and database for suspicious business.

• Safer Cookies
Prevents unauthorized Admin access by making your cookies IP-specific.

• Maximum Security plugin
Guards against intrusion, tracks system events, blocks malicious content, and includes a strong Web application firewall and intrusion prevention system.

• WordPress AntiVirus
Smart and effective solution to protect your blog against exploits and spam injections. Features manual testing, auto notifications, and whitelist functionality.

• ServerBuddy
Tests server configuration to look for problems with hosting configuration and determine compatibility with various WordPress themes and plugins.

• WP-MalWatch
Security plugin scanner designed to help alert you when hackers have been at work inside your blog.