Really Simple Security – Simple and Performant Security (formerly Really Simple SSL) vs TrafficGuard PPC Fraud Prevention

Easily improve site security with WordPress Hardening, Two-Factor Authentication (2FA), Login Protection, Vulnerability Detection and SSL certificate. Really simple, Effective and Performant WordPress Security Really Simple Security is the most lightweight and easy-to-use security plugin for WordPress. It secures your WordPress website with SSL certificate generation, including proper 301 https redirection and SSL enforcement, scanning for possible vulnerabilities, Login Protection and implementing essential WordPress hardening features. We believe that security should have the absolute minimum effect on website performance, user experience and maintainability. Therefore, Really Simple Security is: Lightweight: Every security feature is developed with a modular approach and with performance in mind. Disabled features won’t load any redundant code. Easy-to-use: 1-minute configuration with short onboarding setup. Security Features Easy SSL Migration Migrates your website to HTTPS and enforces SSL in just one click. 301 redirect via PHP or .htaccess Secure cookies Let’s Encrypt: Install an SSL Certificate if your hosting provider supports manual installation. Server Health Check: Your server configuration is every bit as important for your website security. WordPress Hardening Tweak your configuration and keep WordPress fortified and safe by tackling potential weaknesses. Prevent code execution in the uploads folder Prevent login feedback and disable user enumeration Disable XML-RPC Disable directory browsing Username restrictions (block ‘admin’ and public names) and much more.. Vulnerability Detection Get notified when plugins, themes or WP core contain vulnerabilities and need appropriate action. Login Protection Allow or enforce Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for specific user roles. Users receive a two-factor code via Email. Improve Security with Really Simple Security Pro Protect your site with all essential security features by upgrading to Really Simple Security Pro. Advanced SSL enforcement Mixed Content Scan & Fixer. Detect files that are requested over HTTP and fix them to HTTPS, both Front- and Back-end. Enable HTTP Strict Transport Security and configure your site for the HSTS Preload list. Firewall Really Simple Security Pro includes a performant and efficient WordPress firewall, to stop bots, crawlers and bad actors with IP and username blocks. 404 blocking – Blocks crawlers as they trigger unusual numbers of 404 errors. Region blocking – Only allow/block access to your site from specific regions. Automated and customisable Firewall rules. IP blocklist and allowlist. Security Headers Security headers protect your site visitors against the risk of clickjacking, cross-site-forgery attacks, stealing login credentials and malware. Independent of your Server Configuration, works on Apache, LiteSpeed, NGINX, etc. Protect your website visitors with X-XSS Protection, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, a Referrer Policy and CORS headers. Automatically generate your WordPress-tailored Content Security Policy. Vulnerability Measures When a vulnerability is detected in a plugin, theme or WordPress core you will get notified accordingly. With Vulnerability Measures, you can configure simple but effective measures to make sure that a critical vulnerability won’t remain unattended. Force update: An update process will be tried multiple times until it can be assumed development of a theme or plugin is abandoned. You will be notified during these steps. Quarantine: When a plugin or theme can’t be updated to solve a vulnerability, Really Simple Security can quarantine the plugin. Advanced Site Hardening Choose a custom login URL Automated File Permissions check and fixer Rename and randomize your database prefix Change the debug.log file location to a non-public folder Disable application passwords Control admin creation Disable HTTP methods, reducing HTTP requests Login Protection Secure your website’s login process and user accounts with powerful security measures. Two-Step verification (Email login) 2FA (two factor authentication) with TOTP Passwordless login with passkey login Enforce strong passwords and frequent password change Limit Login Attempts With Limit Login Attempts you can configure a threshold to temporarily or permanently block IP addresses or (non-existing) usernames. You can also throw a CAPTCHA after a failed login (hCaptcha or Google reCaptcha) Access Control Restrict access to your site for specific regions. Add specific IP addresses or IP ranges to the Blocklist or Allowlist. Useful Links Documentation Security Definitions Translate Really Simple Security Issues & pull requests Feature requests Love Really Simple Security? If you want to support the continuing development of this plugin, please consider buying Really Simple Security Pro, which includes some excellent security features and premium support. About Really Simple Plugins Our mission is to make complex WordPress requirements really easy. Really Simple Security is developed by Really Simple Plugins. For generating SSL certificates, Really Simple Security uses the le acme2 PHP Let’s Encrypt client library, thanks to ‘fbett’ for providing it. Vulnerability Detection uses WP Vulnerability, an open-source initiative by Javier Casares. Want to join as a collaborator? We’re on GitHub as well!

Competitors clicking on ads, bot traffic and click farms are just some of the ways that your PPC budget could be wasted on fraud. Using TrafficGuard’s PPC protection, you can stop click fraud in real-time and ensure that every dollar of your GoogleAds budget generates genuine advertising engagement, delivering to your bottom line. When you are using TrafficGuard’s PPC Protection, your Google Ads campaigns result in: Genuine ad engagements – No more bots, clicks farms or competitors clicks draining your ad spend. Just genuine advertising engagement. More customers – Campaigns that reach real people who have the potential to become real customers. Faster growth – With more budget going towards attracting actual customers, you can scale your advertising confidently to achieve faster business growth More time – TrafficGuard removes the burden of blacklist management from your Search Marketing team so that they can spend their time on growth-focussed initiatives. TrafficGuard PPC Protection Features Real time click protection TrafficGuard’s PPC protection stops click fraud in real-time, automatically blocking malicious IPs and devices from seeing your ads. Blacklists are automatically updated by TrafficGuard via the Google Ads API. Superior fraud mitigation TrafficGuard’s PPC protection has been developed by the same team of dedicated engineers and data scientists behind TrafficGuard’s enterprise ad fraud solutions, delivering you an unprecedented level of PPC protection. Detailed reporting At any given moment, get a comprehensive view of your GoogleAds traffic and types of fraud detected at the click, campaign and organisation levels. Expert support Our customer success team is available to answer any questions and offer support for your TrafficGuard PPC protection implementation. About TrafficGuard TrafficGuard’s PPC protection leverages the sophistication of our enterprise ad fraud prevention solution to now protect PPC campaigns on Google Ads. TrafficGuard processes in excess of 3 trillion data points a month. That data is continuously strengthening the machine learning models that operate across all of our products, including TrafficGuard PPC Protect. We have a data science and engineering team that lives and breathes ad fraud prevention – building the most comprehensive solution specifically to address the problem of ad fraud. Learn more about TrafficGuard’s comprehensive fraud mitigation for brands, agencies and ad networks at trafficguard.ai