5 Must-Have Magento  Security Plugins

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WatchLog

This Magento extension helps in preventing your website from brute force attacks. This means Watchlog will identify and stop attacks that aim to access Magento backoffice.

Features

Prevent website from brute force attacks. A detailed and summarized table of login attempts. Obtain a periodic report on the statistics on email. View the daily and monthly login attempts in graphs. A track of the connection attempts.

How to Use

Go to System > Config > Wyomind > WatchLog

  • Connexion attempts history: Configure a certain number of parameters.
  • Send a Periodical Report: Receive reports by setting it to a ‘YES’. 
  • Period to Report in Days: Number of days you want to include in your report.
  • Report Title: Title of your report. Report Recipients: Enter addresses where you wish to receive the report. 
  • Report Schedule: Schedule to automatically receive the reports.


By navigating to Systems > Watchlog, you can have an overview of the login attempts to your Magento backoffice.

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Compatibility

Compatibility


  • Price

Starts at €70​


Amasty’s Admin Login Actions

Amasty’s Magento Extension helps in keeping a track of how, when, and by whom your store data has been viewed or modified. You can effectively manage your staff by limiting the access and separating category management.


Features

  • Keep all the actions performed in-store backend by admin users.
  • View log history.
  • Keep log records for as long as you need.
  • You can see login activity and block malicious login attempts.
  • It keeps a track of what has been done in your store admin panel

and by whom.

  • You can see all log details on the grid for the specified time.
  • You can ban or unban users.

​Price

 $169​

MageFence

MageFence is a unique and well-rounded solution for Magento that keeps your website secure from common security threats. By acting as an additional layer of protection, it blocks brute force and other hack attacks.

  • Regularly scans your website internally and notifies about any potential unwanted changes.
  • It offers a variety of features that aim to keep your website protection up-to-date and use best security practices.
  • This Magento extension scans the database and detects users with admin privileges created without authorization.
  • It performs a security audit of your Magento website to find
  • security loopholes, vulnerabilities, and malware infections.
  • You can find which security patches are not installed.
  • With the checklist feature, you can find unauthorized users with admin privileges and if there’s any file changed.
  • Alerts you if there is any sign of malware infection.

How to use

  • Set the time of scan
  • Set the frequency of the scan
  • Set login failures and MageFence will block those shady IP
  • address who exceeds this specific number of login attempts. However, there is an option to add certain IP addresses to the ‘White List’ which will prevent you from getting locked out. By selecting this option, you will tell MageFence that it is you.

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  • Price

 $159

Two Factor Authentication

You can enhance Magento admin security with Amasty’s Two-Factor authentication.

Features

  • It combines Google Authenticator application and your smartphone to verify the admin session. Thereby, protecting your unauthorized logins and fraudsters.
  • It assures protection against data sniff by providing new security
  • code each time. So even if your security code and password are sniffed they couldn’t be used to get logged in.
  • Time-based security codes are provided. They change every 30 seconds and remain valid only before 30 seconds.
  • You can white-list some IP addresses (for example, your company IP) and not require entering the verification code.


Compatibility

  • iPhone (iOS 3.1+)
  • iPad
  • iPod touch
  • Android (1.5+)
  • Blackberry (OS 4.5-6.0)

You can make sure if your device can run the Google Authenticator application

Price

 $69

MageFirewall Security

MageFirewall Security is one of the best Magento extensions creating an additional layer of security around the Magento commerce system. It blocks and blacklists the attackers.

Features

  • Using Ninja Firewall rules, it blocks the attackers and prevents them from getting through your website.
  • It scans to provide recommendations around your store setup.
  • This Magento extension includes a ‘recently modified file’ scanner to alert when someone breaks into your store.
  • Secures your store against brute force attacks and blacklists them.
  • File modification detector
  • Scan web servers
  • It scans your Magento for unpatched security issues


Price

Free

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