This has a ton of built-in security features including a site scan, email notifications for logins/activity, and Wordpress Integrity scans. It's a lifesaver (almost literally)!

Security is great, but it's not going to work for you unless you can get the email notifications. Recently all my sites' PHP mailers stopped working and so I had to implement this WP Mail SMTP plugin. It has good free integration with Google and others like Outlook require premium, but it's a solid plugin that gets emails working through your 3rd party email service.

If you have your DNS on Cloudflare, you need this plugin for things to work smoothly. It's free and allows you to optimize all the great features CLoudflare offers.

There are several plugins that get Cloudflare's Turnstile on your forms will cut down on much of the spam and bot activity. A must-have for sure!