My recommendation is to pick just one. They all do similar things and it’s highly likely they’ll step on each other and do unexpected things.
I run iThemesSecurity and WordFence together. They are different enough that the two together do a great job but don’t interfere with each other.
I usually put the WordFence Assistant plugin in also but I don’t activate until I think I might need it. That’s probably dumb but I hardly ever use it and I think there’s a workaround if you can’t get in because of WordFence locking you out. I just kill WordFence and then fix the issue after I do get in the few times I’ve been locked out. Just feels good having it there.
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Note: I don’t use any security plugins.
I was curious if you all use them together or just choose one?
Use one.
*Look for coffee, finds none*
Security plugins do overlap and when everything works, cool. When something doesn’t work as expected then it will be difficult to identify the problem plugins.
This is the same as if you were using multiple spam plugins. You could but IMHO it’s best to choose one and go with that.
