15 SeCurity PlugiNS for PoPular CmS
These plugins help provide an additional layer of security for content on your website
WordPress
1. All In One WP Security & Firewall: It adds extra security and firewall to your site and takes your website security to a whole new level. This plugin is easy to use and reduces security risk by checking for vulnerabilities, and by implementing and enforcing the latest recommended WordPress security practices and techniques. 2. iThemes Security: It gives you over 30+ ways to secure and protect your WordPress site. It works to lock down WordPress, fix common holes, stop automated attacks and strengthen user credentials. With advanced features for experienced users, our WordPress security plugin can help harden WordPress. 3. Wordfence Security: Powered by the constantly updated Threat Defense Feed, the Web Application Firewall stops your site from getting hacked. It alerts you quickly in the event your site is compromised and gives you real-time visibility into traffic and hack attempts on your website. 4. Sucuri Security: It offers four key security features for the website, each designed to have a positive effect on their security posture. It keeps an eye on the various changes occurring within your environment. Who is logging in? What changes are being made? 5. Bulletproof Security: It provides security against hacker and spammer. It protects your website files and database with multiple overlapping outer and inner layers of website security protection.
Drupal
1. Login security: It lets you limit the number of unsuccessful login attempts and set a policy when the limit is reached. It can notify the administrator when a brute forcing attack is occurring. 2. SpamSpan filter: Its main purpose is to hide email addresses from bots that try to extract them from your website. Security Kit: It lets you mitigate the risks of exploitation of different web application vulnerabilities. It offers security under four major categories- cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery, clickjacking, and SSL/TLS. 3. 4. – Security Review: It automates testing for many of the easy-to-make mistakes that render your site insecure. It checks the safe file system permission of your website that limits the execution of any arbitrary code and protects against dangerous XSS tags available in the text formats. 5. Username Enumeration Prevention: When an attacker knows a username they can start a brute force attack to gain access to that user. To help prevent this, it is best if usernames on the system are not easy to find out. This module will stop this from happening. When the module is enabled, the error message will be replaced with the same message as a valid user and they will be redirected back to the login form. If the user does not exist, no password reset email will be sent, but the attacker will not know this is the case.
Joomla
1. RSFirewall: It protects your website from intrusions and hacker attacks. It’s backed up by a team of experts that are trained to be always up to date with the latest known vulnerabilities. 2. Akeeba Admin Tools: It is like a Swiss Army knife that detects, notify you about new Joomla releases, fix your files’ and directories’ permissions, protect your administrator directory with a password, change your database prefix, migrate links pointing to your old domain on-the-fly and perform database maintenance, all with a single click. 3. JHackGuard: It protects websites from hacking attacks and keeps you safe against SQL Injections, Remote URL/File Inclusions, Remote Code Executions and XSS Based Attacks. 4. JomDefender: It helps to keep your site secure from wreckful hacker attacks. This security plugin is built in ‘corePHP’. The plugin helps to fix some of the most common vulnerabilities within Joomla and implements additional protective layers to the site to protect it from any kind of security attack. Eyesite: It guards and protects your site from possible threats. It warns or informs you of potential hackers that are intruding your site. It makes use of a plugin that can scan the directory structure of your site and store information at the same time. 5.