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<p>Titan includes anti-spam, firewall, malware scanner, site accessibility checking, security and threats audits for WordPress websites. Our security functions provide Titan with the latest firewall rules, malware signatures, and database of malicious IP addresses – all you need to ensure the security of your website.</p>
<p>Titan is a comprehensive WordPress security solution, completed by a set of additional features as add-ons, which was placed into a simple and intuitive interface.</p>
<p><strong>Why did we update Anti-Spam and what is Titan?</strong></p>
<p>Let me tell you before we start: your favorite Anti-Spam had not disappeared! Instead of that it revived and became stronger to stand guard over the secure of your site!<br />
The latest update of Anti-Spam is called Titan Anti-spam & Security and represents the brand new version of a plugin.</p>
<p><strong>Why TITAN?</strong></p>
<p>We aim to create a plugin as reliable as this metal – and easy-to-use at the same time. The new name of our plugin sets the pace with newest and highest standards of quality.</p>
<p>What has been changed except the name?<br />
Whilst the process of modernization we had to take some complicated decisions. One of them was:<br />
What should we do: keep Anti-Spam like a simple plugin with the only one function or complicate it with a huge complex of tools made for the security of your site?<br />
Constant feedback from users and versatile development experience lets us claim that the situation when there is too many tools couldn’t exist!<br />
We considered all possibilities thoroughly to secure the best future for the plugin.<br />
Let me introduce new secure functionality that was developed with spending a lot of time, effort and consideration:</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<h3>ANTI-SPAM</h3>
<p>ANTI-SPAM CHECKS YOUR COMMENTS THROUGH OUR GLOBAL SPAM DATABASE, THEN A SELF-LEARNING NEURAL NETWORK RE-CHECKS UNFILTERED COMMENTS, TO PREVENT YOUR SITE FROM PUBLISHING MALICIOUS CONTENT.</p>
<ul>
<li>No captcha.</li>
<li>We have created algorithms to ensure reliability and accuracy against spam bots. It will save your time and resources, allowing you to focus on developing and improving your website and business. Antispam provides logs of all the processed requests that allows you to check the spam filters results. Regular analysis of parameters allows you to find new spam behavior patterns.</li>
<li>A comment posted by a user appears on the site right away. The background check marks spam comments as spam and hides them on a site. This helps to improve user experience and increase engagement.</li>
<li>[PRO] Checking the already existing comments and users for spam.</li>
<li>[PRO] We provide 24/7 technical support.</li>
<li>[PRO] To identify and block spam bots AntiSpamPro uses a series of tests running in the background, totally transparent to the website User. It allows 100% protection from spam bots No extra protection needed.</li>
<li>[PRO] Anti-spam is a comprehensive and transparent anti-spam protection. We provide detailed statistics of all logged comments and logins. You can always be sure that there are no errors.</li>
<li>[PRO]  Protect Register Form.</li>
<li>[PRO] Advanced protection of comment forms.</li>
<li>We regularly release updates to the anti-spam module. Our modules always meet new versions of CMS and we are constantly expanding supported CMS.</li>
</ul>
<h3>WORDPRESS FIREWALL</h3>
<p>The web application firewall detects and blocks malicious traffic. It protects your website at the endpoint by providing deep integration with WordPress. In contrast to cloud alternatives, it does not violate encryption, cannot be bypassed and does not contribute to data leakage.</p>
<ul>
<li>Protection brute force  attacks by restricting login attempts.</li>
<li>[PRO] Update real-time firewall rules and malware signatures through the threat protection channel.</li>
<li>[PRO] Real-time IP Block List blocks all requests from malicious IP addresses, protecting your site and reducing load.</li>
<li>[PRO] An integrated malware scanner blocks requests containing malicious code or content.</li>
<li>[PRO] Using the Attack Log you can track visits and hacking attempts that are not shown in other analytic packages in real time; including origin, IP address, current time, and time spent on your site.</li>
<li>[PRO] Block intruders by IP address or create advanced rules based on a range of IP addresses, hostname, user agent, and referrer.</li>
</ul>
<h3>WORDPRESS SECURITY SCANNER</h3>
<ul>
<li>The malware scanner checks the system files, themes and plugins for malware, invalid URLs, backdoors, SEO spam, malicious redirects and code injections.</li>
<li>Basic scanning using more than 1000 signatures.</li>
<li>[PRO] Advanced scanning with more than 6000 signatures.</li>
<li>[PRO] Configure three scan speeds to make sure the performance is not affected.</li>
<li>[PRO] Set scan schedules – daily, monthly, and manually.</li>
<li>[PRO] Update malware signatures in real time through a threat protection channel.</li>
<li>Compares your system, themes and plugins with those which are in the WordPress.org repository, checking their integrity and informing you of all changes.</li>
<li>Recover modified files by overwriting them with the original version.</li>
<li>Delete unknown and unwanted files easily via the Titan interface.</li>
<li>Checks your site for vulnerabilities and notifies in case of any problems or discrepancies. It also provides a notification of potential security issues when the plugin has been closed or inactivated.</li>
<li>Checks the content security by scanning the contents of files, messages and comments for dangerous URLs and suspicious content.</li>
</ul>
<h3>SITE CHECKER [PRO]</h3>
<ul>
<li>Check the availability of any URL</li>
<li>Push notifications in the browser to show URLs access issues in real time.<br />
Your browser will receive push notifications if one of the URLS is unavailable.</li>
</ul>
<h3>TWEAKS</h3>
<ul>
<li>Strong Password Requirement</li>
<li>Hide author login</li>
<li>Hide WordPress versions. WordPress itself and many plugins show their version at the visible areas of your site. An attacker who received this information may be aware of the vulnerabilities found in the version of the WordPress core or plugins.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Translations</h3>
<ul>
<li>English (default), always included</li>
<li>Korean — big thanks to @cansmile</li>
<li>Spanish (Venezuela) — big thanks to @yordansoares, @nobnob, @bragnieljimenez</li>
<li>Spanish (Spain) — big thanks to @garridinsi, @nobnob, @nobnob, @nilovelez, @fernandot</li>
<li>Italian — big thanks to @deadpool76</li>
<li>Persian — big thanks to @1farakav</li>
<li>Arabic — big thanks to @alzintani</li>
<li>Swedish — big thanks to @elbogen </li>
<li>Tibetan — big thanks to @bumpagyal </li>
<li>Albanian — big thanks to @besnik </li>
<li>Dutch — big thanks to @robelia </li>
</ul>
<p>We are very need for your help with <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/anti-spam/" rel="nofollow ugc">translating the<br />
Titan Anti-spam & Security plugin</a> into your native language. We want to make it international and understandable for everyone. Please contact us via email inside the plugin, or create a topic on our <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/anti-spam/" rel="ugc">support forum</a> if you can help with the translations. In exchange for your help, we will give you better support and our premium plugins absolutely free!</p>


Titan Anti-spam & Security

Can't uninstall from the dashboard, requires sending data to 3rd party for the survey. Good that I have wp-cli or You can use FTP to uninstall.
NOT WORTH anymore.

Can't uninstall from dashboard, require send data to 3rd party

I liked anti-spam a lot as an anti-spam plugin... But sadly now it has too many things, and I don't like it. With the free option it doesn't offer a complete security system, there are a lot of firewall options that can't be used, so it is too much for only an anti-spam plugin and quite complicated. So I changed to another one, because I also don't want it to collide with the other security plugin I use.

Too much things for an anti-spam plugin too few (on free) for a security one

Anti-spam, Site Security Check & Malware Scanner.

iThemes

Lew Ayotte

SolidWP

Timothy Jacobs

Jared Hill

Lisa Canini

<h4>Reduce your WordPress website’s risk to nearly zero with Solid Security</h4>
<p><a href="https://go.solidwp.com/wporg-security-ithemes" rel="nofollow ugc">Formerly iThemes Security. Looking for iThemes? Learn more here.</a></p>
<p>On average, 30,000 websites are hacked every day.* Cyberattacks in the US increased by 57% in 2022.** Bad actors who want to hack your site, steal your data, and cripple your business are a 24/7/365 threat.</p>
<p>You need a proactive, strategic approach to WordPress website security that protects your site from brute force attacks, malware infections, and other cyber threats.</p>
<p><a href="https://go.solidwp.com/solid-security-pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Solid Security</a> shields your site from cyberattacks and prevents security vulnerabilities. It automatically locks out bad users identified by our Brute Force Protection Network that is nearly 1 million sites strong and leverages your own blacklist. It secures and protects your most commonly attacked part of your WordPress website – user login authentication.</p>
<p>With Patchstack integration (Pro) protects your site before you even have a chance to address vulnerabilities and before a plugin or theme vendor or developer can even issue a patch.</p>
<p>That’s 24/7/365 always-on truly Solid Security.</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Welcome to Solid Security, Part of the SolidWP Suite" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/863249227?dnt=1&app_id=122963" width="750" height="422" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write"></iframe></p>
<h4>🌐 Secure your Website in Minutes</h4>
<p>The Solid Security setup and onboarding experience allows anyone to secure their WordPress website in under 10 minutes, regardless of technical acumen. Knowing that you have enabled all the right security settings for your website will leave you feeling like your site has never been more secure.</p>
<h4>📚 Security Site Templates to Fit Your Type of Site</h4>
<p>Enabling the correct security settings based on the type of website you are building or maintaining is essential for proper security. An eCommerce site requires a different level of security than a basic blog. Solid Security Site Templates make it quick and easy to apply the right security settings for your website.</p>
<p>Choose from six different site templates to apply the type of security your site needs:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Ecommerce</strong> – websites that sell products or services</li>
<li><strong>Network</strong> – websites that connect people or communities</li>
<li><strong>Non-Profit</strong> – websites that promote your cause and collect donations</li>
<li><strong>Blog</strong> – websites that share your thoughts or start a conversation</li>
<li><strong>Portfolio</strong> – websites that showcase your craft</li>
<li><strong>Brochure</strong> – simple websites that promote your business</li>
</ol>
<h4>⌚ Real-Time Website Security Dashboard</h4>
<p>Every day, lots of activity is happening on your website that you can’t see. Many of these activities can be related to your site’s security, so monitoring these events is vital to keeping your site secure.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://go.solidwp.com/solid-security-pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Solid Security Pro</a> plugin provides a real-time WordPress security dashboard that monitors security-related events on your site around the clock. The Solid Security Dashboard is a dynamic dashboard with all your WordPress website’s security activity stats in one place, including brute force attacks, banned users, active lockouts, site scan results, and user security stats (Pro).</p>
<h4>🗝️ WordPress Login Security</h4>
<p>Setting up and maintaining proper WordPress configurations and managing user account access are essential aspects of hardening your site against threats and vulnerabilities. Basic and Pro include features that address both of these factors.</p>
<ul>
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<p><strong>Two Factor Authentication (2FA)</strong> – Make your WordPress login nearly impenetrable to attack by requiring users to enter a security code along with a password to login. The Solid Security plugin allows you to add two-factor authentication to your WordPress login with several authentication methods, including mobile apps like Authy and Google Authenticator, email, and backup codes.</p>
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<p><strong>Password Requirements</strong> – Create and enforce a password policy for your users in less than a minute.</p>
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<p><strong>reCAPTCHA</strong> (Pro) – Stop bad bots from engaging in abusive activities on your website, such as attempting to break into your website using compromised passwords, posting spam, or even scraping your content.</p>
</li>
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<p><strong>Passwordless Logins</strong> (Pro) – WordPress security made easy. Secure your user accounts with 2fa & strong passwords while allowing real users login with a click of a mouse.</p>
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<p><strong>Trusted Devices</strong> (Pro) – Identify the devices you and other users use to block session hijacking attacks and limit Administrator privileges to Trusted Devices.</p>
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<p><strong>Automated Vulnerability Patching</strong> (Pro) – Solid Security Pro includes Patchstack which patches vulnerabilities before you have a chance to and applies fixes even before a plugin developer or vendor has issued a patch.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Learn more about how <a href="https://go.solidwp.com/wporgpasswordless" rel="nofollow ugc">passwordless login is the future</a> and how Solid Security can help you implement it today.</p>
<h4>👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 The Right Amount of Security for Every User Level</h4>
<p>Different types of user levels require different levels of security. During the Solid Security setup process, you can identify your website’s key user groups. Once the different types of users are identified, you can apply the level of security that is just right for each user group.</p>
<p>Here are a couple of examples of how User Groups are useful for securing your site:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><strong>For Clients</strong> – Let’s say you are configuring Solid Security on a client’s website. You will decide whether or not they are required to use two-factor authentication and if they should have access to the Solid Security settings.</p>
</li>
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<p><strong>For Customers</strong> – If you have an eCommerce website, you will decide whether or not you want to protect customer accounts with a password policy.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Privilege Escalation</strong> (Pro) also adds a safe, secure way to grant temporary admin-level access to your website.</p>
<h4>🤖 Block Bad Bots & Ban User Agents with Lockouts</h4>
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<p><strong>Ban Users</strong> (Basic and Pro) – Permanently block repeat offenders from accessing your site.<br />
Local Brute Force Protection – Automatically identify and stop the most common method of attack on WordPress sites.</p>
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<p><strong>Local Brute Force Protection</strong> (Basic and Pro) – Automatically identify and stop the most common method of attack on WordPress sites.</p>
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<p><strong>Network Brute Force Protection</strong> (Basic and Pro) – The network is the Solid Security community and is nearly one million websites strong. If someone tries to break into websites in the Solid Security community, Solid Security will block them across the network.</p>
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<p><strong>Magic Links</strong> (Pro) – Security shouldn’t get in your way. Magic Links allow you to log in to your WordPress site while your username is locked out by the Solid Security Local Brute Force Protection feature.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>🔍 Monitor Your Site’s Security Health</h4>
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<p><strong>File Change Detection</strong> (Basic and Pro) – Solid Security logs changes made to your website that can help detect malicious activity on your website.</p>
</li>
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<p><strong>Site Scanner (Basic and Pro)</strong> – Schedule checks to run four times per day (Basic) or hourly (Pro) for known vulnerabilities of WordPress core file, plugins and themes. Using the Google Safe Browsing API, the Site Scan also checks your Google’s blocklist status and will alert you if Google has found any malware on your website.</p>
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<p><strong>Patchstack integration (Pro)</strong> – Automated virtual patching of some vulnerabilities before you even have a chance to address them yourself, and before a plugin or theme vendor or developer can even issue a patch.</p>
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<p><strong>Site Scanner</strong> (Pro) – Unlock Version Management to automatically apply a patch to vulnerable software detected by the Site Scan when one is available.</p>
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<p><strong>User Logging</strong> (Pro) – Keep a record of user activity in your WordPress security logs, including login/logout, user registration, adding/removing plugins, switching themes, changes to posts and pages, and more.</p>
</li>
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<p><strong>Version Management</strong> (Pro) – The Version Management feature in Solid Security Pro allows you to auto-update WordPress, plugins, and themes. Beyond that, Version Management also has options to harden your website when you are running outdated software and scan for old websites.</p>
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</ul>
<h4>🧠 Smarter, More Actionable Vulnerability Prioritization</h4>
<p>Not all vulnerabilities pose the same level of risk, and the traditional Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score doesn’t always reflect the realities of running a WordPress site.</p>
<p>Solid Security now uses the Patchstack Priority score, which goes beyond CVSS to provide a real-world risk assessment tailored to WordPress. It factors in how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited and its actual impact on your site.</p>
<p>With Patchstack Priority, you get a clearer picture of what really matters, helping you focus on the vulnerabilities that pose the greatest risk, and worry less about noise from low-impact issues.</p>
<h4>🛠️ Website Security Utilities</h4>
<ul>
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<p><strong>Enforce SSL</strong> – Force all connections to the website to be made over SSL/TLS.</p>
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<p><strong>Database Backups</strong> – Create backups of your WordPress database. (Not a complete backup.)</p>
</li>
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<p><strong>Geolocation</strong> (Pro) – Improve Trusted Devices by connecting to an external location or mapping API.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>🚀 Advanced Security Tools</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Identify Server IPs</strong> – Prevent issues caused by inadvertently locking out your server IPs.</li>
<li><strong>Change User ID 1</strong> – Change the user ID for the first WordPress user, potentially preventing attacks that assume the user with ID1 exists and is an administrator.</li>
<li><strong>Change Database Prefix</strong> – Change the database prefix that WordPress uses, potentially preventing attacks that assume the database prefix is “wp_”.</li>
<li><strong>Check File Permission</strong> – See the file and directory permissions of key areas of your site.</li>
<li><strong>Server Config Rules</strong> – View or flush the server security rules generated by Solid Security.</li>
<li><strong>wp-config.php Rules</strong> – View or flush the wp-config.php security rules generated by Solid Security.</li>
<li><strong>Change WordPress Salts</strong> – Secure your site after a successful attack by changing the WordPress salts used to secure cookies and security tokens.</li>
<li><strong>Hide Login URL</strong> – change the login URL of your site, making it harder for bots to find your login page and attack it.</li>
</ul>
<h4>🛟 Need Help?</h4>
<p>Free support may be available with the community’s help in the WordPress.org support forums. Our Solid Security support team provides top-notch technical support to all our Solid Security Basic users there.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://go.solidwp.com/security-help-center" rel="nofollow ugc">Our Help Center will help you become an iThemes Security expert.</a></strong></p>
<p>Get additional peace of mind with professional support from our expert team and pro features to take your site’s security to the next level with Solid Security Pro.</p>
<h4>Recover From a Hacked Site</h4>
<p>Solid Security makes regular backups of your WordPress database, allowing you to get back online quickly in the event of a hack or security breach. Use Solid Security to create and email database backups on a customizable schedule.</p>
<p>For complete site backups and the ability to restore or move WordPress to a new host or domain, check out <a href="https://go.solidwp.com/security-basic-solid-backups" rel="nofollow ugc">Solid Backups</a>.</p>
<h4>Solid Central Integration</h4>
<p>Manage more than one WordPress site? Release lockouts and keep your themes, plugins, and WordPress core up to date from one dashboard with <a href="https://go.solidwp.com/security-basic-solid-central" rel="nofollow ugc">Solid Central</a>.</p>
<p>*Zippia. “30 Crucial Cybersecurity Statistics [2023]: Data, Trends And More” Zippia.com. Jun. 15, 2023, https://www.zippia.com/advice/cybersecurity-statistics/</p>
<p>**https://blog.checkpoint.com/2023/01/05/38-increase-in-2022-global-cyberattacks/</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.</p>


Solid Security – Password, Two Factor Authentication, and Brute Force Protection

The Best WordPress Security Plugin to Secure & Protect WordPress


When paired with Cloudflare for added security, this plugin is nice and lightweight. It's secure enough when you already have other security measures on your website and good hosting.



I do wish they had an option to disable reporting vulnerable software every time a plugin was one miner version behind on updates, especially since I have an auto update plugin on my website.



Other than that, if you have good and secure hosting, and are using a cloudflare dns, this is a good and lightweight plugin. (note: I'm also using nginx instead of apache).


Decent Plugin When Paired With Cloudflare


My experience was when testing this plugin on behalf of some of my customer's complaints.



Right after installing it, some dynamic images stopped working due to modifications this plugin makes to .htaccess file.



Such modifications are registered as being part of iThemes Security which makes it even harder to identify.



Because most of my customers don't even use git or any version control system, it gets even harder to identify such changes.



Also, by deactivating or even removing the plugin (using wp-cli or via panel) will not undo those intrusive changes.



Same goes to changes made in wp-config.php disallowinging file editing, regardless you configure the plugin to not alter your wp-config.php file.


Inadivertly changes .htaccess configuration


This plugin makes website protection simple with real-time monitoring and automatic blocking that works quietly in the background. I feel more confident knowing threats are stopped before they cause damage. The cost of the premium plan could be a hurdle for smaller projects but the features are impressive.


Reliable Security You Can Count On

Harden your site security with Login Security, Two-Factor Authentication (2FA), Vulnerability Scanner, Firewall, and more. Formerly iThemes Security.

Titan Anti-spam & Security vs Solid Security – Password, Two Factor Authentication, and Brute Force Protection