Really Simple Security – Simple and Performant Security (formerly Really Simple SSL) vs VerifiedVisitors

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!

VerifiedVisitors is a bank grade AI/ML bot mitigation platform built from the ground up to support the WordPress community. How does it work? By deploying our agent, VerifiedVisitors helps to protect your web estate from unwanted and malicious bot traffic using the plugin init hook to verify visitors and block unwanted or potentially malicious traffic. Our intelligent detectors examine thousands of diverse security signals, separate out the legitimate bots and users from the malicious ones by learning from your traffic. Our customers receive security protection from malicious bot activity such as account takeover, credit card attacks, and content scraping, and we can help save you valuable energy resources on web hosting, bandwidth, and CPU. All the bot detection and mitigation happens at the earliest part of the visitors journey – the plugin takes minutes to install. Setup is simple, typically our customers are up and running in minutes, not days. With VerifiedVisitors you will be able to manage all the bots visiting your site, set your bot access list, and automate mitigation through the VerifiedVisitors dashboard. If you use AWS CloudFront or Cloudflare you can install VerifiedVisitors at the edge of network by starting your journey at https://app.verifiedvisitors.com/register What does it cost? All new accounts automatically get access to our Standard Tier FREE for up to 30 days so you can experience the product for yourselves! We charge on a monthly subscription basis, based on total web request volume for your account, with overages available for all tiers except our Basic tier for ad-hoc burst usage. We have a low cost basic tier for accounts with less than 1M web requests per month for $99 per month. For accounts with higher volumes, upgrades are available via the VerifiedVisitors portal starting from as little as $199 per month. Billing is available in both $USD and £GBP. External/Third Party services As part of delivering the identification of bots, VerifiedVisitors uses our own fingerprinting service which is external to the WordPress plugin. Our terms and privacy policies can be found here: https://www.verifiedvisitors.com/terms-of-service and https://www.verifiedvisitors.com/cookie-privacy-policy. The VerifiedVisitors WordPress plugin may present a CAPTCHA page to visitors when a CAPTCHA rule is triggered, which relies on hCAPTCHA. Their terms and privacy policies can be found here: https://www.hcaptcha.com/terms and https://www.hcaptcha.com/privacy.