1on1secure

Eric Zabala

chopper001

<p>A powerful visitor verification and screening plugin designed to enhance your website’s security.</p>
<ul>
<li>Reduce Comment Spam</li>
<li>Reduce Contact Page Spam</li>
<li>Unique Firewall Reduces the Risk of WordPress Vulnerability Scans</li>
<li>Identify and blocking known bad actors</li>
</ul>
<p>AI tools such as WormGPT and FraudGPT are now used to defeat CAPTCHAs, find vulnerabilties, and produce exploits.  New security tools are required to better detect these new AI threats.</p>
<p>With 1on1 Secure, you can strengthen your website’s defenses without the need for CAPTCHAs. Safeguard your online presence and ensure a seamless user experience with our reliable security solution.</p>
<p>Take a test spin of this plugin – We would love to hear your feedback!</p>
<h4>Free 6-Month Renewable License</h4>
<p>No Credit Card required</p>
<p>1on1 Secure is an anti-spam plugin which works with the premium Cloud Anti-Spam service 1on1Secure.com. This is a Serviceware plugin <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/detailed-plugin-guidelines/#6-software-as-a-service-is-permitted" rel="nofollow ugc">https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/detailed-plugin-guidelines/#6-software-as-a-service-is-permitted</a></p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Firewall identifies and blocks malicious traffic.</li>
<li>Customizable Personal Blacklisting and Whitelisting</li>
<li>IP Blocklist blocks all requests from malicious IPs and protects your site while reducing server load.</li>
<li>Complete reporting shows all blocked visitors and visitors given access</li>
<li>Customizable geographic blocking and Tor Exit node blocking</li>
<li>Customizable error page shown to blocked IPs</li>
</ul>
<h4>Serviceware</h4>
<p>This is a Serviceware plugin for WordPress which interfaces with the 1on1 Secure cloud servers to analyze and score website visitors for potential spam or security threats.  An active 1on1 Secure account is required to use this plugin.  A link will be provided to create a new account from within the plugin settings menu.  A free 6-Month Renewable License will be provided upon registration.</p>


1on1 Secure – AI Security, Anti-Spam, and Firewall


I am the developer of this plugin and I am not a customer.  I am leaving this review to balance the first review posted from someone who never registered the plugin and therefore could not have used it in order to honestly review it.I am excited about this project and look forward to helping honest people who install the plugin and actually use it.


A good start

Visitor verification and screening for known bad actors. No CAPTCHA required to prevent comment spam, prevent contact page spam, and reduce wordpress  …

Patchstack

<p>Patchstack is a powerful tool that helps identify security vulnerabilities within your websites’ plugins, themes, and WordPress core. It is powered by the WordPress ecosystem’s most active community of ethical hackers. Patchstack is trusted by leading WordPress experts such as Pagely, Cloudways, GridPane, Plesk, and others!</p>
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<p>Patchstack is a security plugin for WordPress that finds WP core, plugin and theme vulnerabilities in your websites.</p>
<p>The free version includes up to 48-hour early warning for new vulnerabilities found by our security research community. It also allows you to automatically update vulnerable software, manage updates remotely, and get snapshot reports on your sites’ security status.</p>
<p>The paid version includes automatic vulnerability protection. Patchstack deploys highly targeted rules on a per-site basis, only when a specific vulnerability is detected on a site.</p>
<p>This prevents vulnerable components from being exploited without modifying website code, or impacting site performance or functionality. Patchstack’s paid version includes access to 12,000+ individual protection rules (vPatches).</p>
<p>Patchstack paid version also includes other preventive security features, such as 2 factor authentication, WordPress specific hardening rules, a Community IP blocklist for malicious IP addresses, advanced security settings, and custom protection rules.</p>
<h3>Post-hack cleanups vs attack prevention in WordPress security</h3>
<p>Unlike the standard approach to WordPress security (malware scanning and infection cleanups), Patchstack is focused on preventing infections in the first place.</p>
<p>Thanks to its big WordPress security research community and partnerships with nearly one thousand plugin vendors and developers, Patchstack is regularly among the first to identify new vulnerabilities.</p>
<h3>Who is Patchstack’s WordPress security plugin for?</h3>
<p>Patchstack’s vulnerability management works extremely well for:</p>
<ul>
<li>Agencies with WordPress care/maintenance plans for their customers’ websites</li>
<li>WooCommerce websites to protect their revenue and customers from attacks</li>
<li>Hosting companies that want to deliver highly targeted vulnerability protection easily and at scale<br />
Website owners</li>
</ul>
<p>You don’t have to be highly technical to use it. Install the plugin, connect it with the Patchstack App, and stay safe!</p>
<h3>What features are included in the Patchstack Personal (Free) plan?</h3>
<p>Patchstack’s Personal plan is a free security service for WordPress that lets you find and manage vulnerabilities in your websites. It includes access to a central security dashboard via the Patchstack web App for more visibility and control over your sites’ security:</p>
<ul>
<li>Be the first to know about new vulnerabilities.</li>
<li>Receive notifications if any installed plugins or themes have security issues.</li>
<li>Detect the latest security vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins.</li>
<li>Detect the latest security vulnerabilities in WordPress themes.</li>
<li>Detect the latest security vulnerabilities in WordPress core.</li>
<li>Receive real-time alerts via email if any security vulnerabilities are found.</li>
<li>Manage core, plugin and theme updates from a single dashboard.</li>
<li>[Optional] Enable automatic updates for vulnerable plugins only.</li>
<li>Generate snapshot reports about the security status of your website.</li>
</ul>
<h3>What features do Patchstack paid subscriptions have?</h3>
<p>Patchstack’s paid subscriptions include automatic protection for WordPress vulnerabilities, as well as other protection modules.</p>
<ul>
<li>Virtual patching to prevent vulnerable components from being exploited</li>
<li>Advanced hardening module for added WordPress security</li>
<li>Remote hardening settings (including .httacess, login protection and reCAPTCHA)</li>
<li>Community IP Blocklist of known attacker IP addresses<br />
All of these features are included in the Developer and Enterprise plans.<br />
Additionally, Developer and Enterprise plan users have access to custom protection rule creation, periodical security reports and report scheduling.</li>
</ul>
<p>Personal (Free) plan users can enable these features on a per-site basis for $5 / site per month.</p>
<p><strong>Important Resources</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://patchstack.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Patchstack website</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.patchstack.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Help Center</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.patchstack.com/patchstack-plugin/changelog/" rel="nofollow ugc">Changelog</a></li>
<li><a href="https://patchstack.com/database" rel="nofollow ugc">Patchstack Vulnerability Database</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>See what our customers say about our paid plans:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>“An excellent and valuable service that’s backed by a company that contributes a significant number of resources and money directly back to the WordPress ecosystem.” – John Blackbourn  </li>
<li>“Patchstack is like CrowdStrike, but for websites!” – Ryan McCue, HumanMade  </li>
<li>“The service here is superb! And they are always right on it with the best solution to solve the problem or question at hand. The tool itself speaks for itself. I am very satisfied with this project and the service they offer.” – Daniel Canup  </li>
<li>“This is a security plugin everyone needs to install. The Patchstack team are incredible at what they do. We have been using them for years and have not been disappointed!” – @craniumstudio  </li>
<li>“We’ve been with Patchstack for a LONG time (even before they were Patchstack). It has always done its job seamlessly and without fail. Ongoing innovation and updates to the Patchstack product mean this plugin is a winner. 5 stars all the way.” – @guapx  </li>
</ul>
<p>(*Comparisons are made by evaluating paid versions.)</p>
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Patchstack – WordPress & Plugins Security

We have been connected with PatchStack Team for Our WordPress Plugins/Themes Audits, Their knowledge and expertise is unbelievable. They have helped us make our products secure on top of that given lots of tips to make WordPress Sites Secure. 

After having an amazing experience with them as an audit partner, We come to know about this plugin for on-site security, We have started to use that in our sites and It's phenomenal too. 

I am not surprised to see such an extraordinary plugin for security, Because It's made by THE PATCHSTACK TEAM.

Install it on your WordPress site and Go take a deep sleep. Patchstack team is there for your site. Big congratulations to the team on this amazing plugin and wish to use that all possible sites of ours and clients.

Now, WordPress Security is in Good Hands

I get all my clients to use Patchstack, love the look'n'feel too.

Only wish they would make local sites (dev environments) a bit more seamless like Jetpack does with their "Offline Mode".

Truly next-gen security

Been using the Patchstack for years. The plugin is lightweight and great. 

The only WP security firewall you need

Just works ;)


As a website developer, PatchStack is a critical part of my security protocol for any site that I build. Having all plugins and themes on auto-update is not an ideal setup when this can break a production site that needs 99.99% uptime, and having a quarterly security review on all sites is difficult to manage. This makes the security work-flow event-driven and efficient.


use it or lose it


I started using the free version of Patchstack about a year and a half ago, and upgraded to the Developer plan several months ago. I switched over from another service, and I found that Patchstack found more vulnerabilities and sent notices faster. I'm also subscribed to some security newsletters, and I've found they are much slower. They often report vulnerabilities days or sometimes even weeks after Patchstack does.



The free version is great, but the paid version gives me even more peace of mind. I know that my websites are protected right away, and the firewall protection means I don't have to jump on the upgrades immediately.



Also, some vulnerabilities get reported even when the developer hasn't fixed the plugin yet. So far, on the paid version, Patchstack reported and virtually patched all of the ones that came up on my websites. It's nice to not have to think about removing a plugin right away, just because the developer is slow to release a fix.


The best choice for reducing plugin risk


An excellent and valuable service that's backed by a company that contributes a significant amount of resources and money directly back to the WordPress ecosystem.


Excellent service


Originally this was a 1 star review but triage team turned it around. Patchstack published CVE-2025-57923 and did not respond for a couple weeks while we actively tried to respond to a purported vulnerability.



However the Head of Threat Intelligence at Patchstack reached out to us directly. We were able to communicate directly, understand the underlying concerns and he helped us resolve this issue within hours. Very helpful. Triage team obviously doing their best. Much credit to them.


Helpful Outreach from Triage

Patchstack automatically identifies and mitigates security vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins, themes, and core.

1on1 Secure – AI Security, Anti-Spam, and Firewall vs Patchstack – WordPress & Plugins Security