Title: Security Plugins – Doubling Up?
Last modified: December 11, 2018

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# Security Plugins – Doubling Up?

 *  [BIrdie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/goldendust20/)
 * (@goldendust20)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-plugins-doubling-up/)
 * Question for you folks – I have three plugins that are all highly recommended
   and I was curious if you all use them together or just choose one? Are there 
   any issue with using all 3 together? They all seem to offer similar security 
   with each having a separate feature the others don’t have…
 * All In One WP Security
    Sucuri Wordfence
 * Thanks!

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 *  [HudsonValleyWebDesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaycbrf/)
 * (@jaycbrf)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-plugins-doubling-up/#post-10974227)
 * Good question…
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-plugins-doubling-up/#post-10974294)
 * 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.
 *  [JNashHawkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jnashhawkins/)
 * (@jnashhawkins)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-plugins-doubling-up/#post-10975875)
 * 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.
 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-plugins-doubling-up/#post-10976231)
 * 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.

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 * Last reply from: [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-plugins-doubling-up/#post-10976231)
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