WP Ghost and Sucuri Security

Table of Contents

Advantages
WP Ghost
Sucuri Security
How They Complement Each Other
Recommended Setup
Final Perspective

WP Ghost is a hack-prevention solution focused on protecting WordPress architecture and reducing automated attack exposure.

Sucuri Security is a well-known security plugin and service focused on monitoring, malware detection, incident response, and website firewall protection.

Used together, they provide two different but complementary security layers that significantly improve your website’s resilience.

Advantages

Both plugins have complementary protection roles.
Both are lightweight and compatible with SEO and caching plugins.
Both work across Apache, Nginx, LiteSpeed, IIS, and multisite setups.
WP Ghost focuses on preventing automated exploit attempts.
Sucuri focuses on monitoring, malware detection, and cleanup.

When combined, you get architectural protection plus monitoring and remediation.

WP Ghost

WP Ghost focuses on:

Protecting and restricting access to WordPress entry points
Reducing exposure of predictable WordPress structures
Filtering malicious requests through 7G & 8G firewall rules
Blocking brute-force attempts
Preventing SQL and script injection patterns
Hardening login and form endpoints
Providing detailed Security Threats Logs

WP Ghost reduces automated attack attempts before they reach vulnerable plugins or themes.

It does not replace malware cleanup services.
It reduces the probability of needing them.

Sucuri Security

Sucuri focuses primarily on:

Malware scanning
File integrity monitoring
Security activity auditing
Website firewall (WAF) filtering
Blacklist monitoring
Incident response and cleanup services

Sucuri’s firewall filters malicious traffic before it reaches your server, and its monitoring tools alert you if suspicious behavior or file changes are detected.

It is strong in detection, monitoring, and recovery.

How They Complement Each Other

WP Ghost	Sucuri Security
Protects WordPress entry points	Website firewall (cloud-based WAF)
Reduces automated exploit exposure	Malware detection & scanning
7G / 8G firewall filtering	File integrity monitoring
Advanced brute-force protection	Blacklist & reputation monitoring
Security Threats Log	Security activity auditing
Path & structural protection	Incident response & cleanup services

WP Ghost works at the application architecture level.
Sucuri works at the traffic filtering and monitoring level.

Together, they provide:

Incident response capability
Entry-point hardening
Firewall filtering
Malware detection
Security monitoring

Recommended Setup

When using both plugins together:

Enable in WP Ghost:

Paths Security
7G / 8G firewall
Brute-force protection
Security Headers
Security Threats Log
2FA Authentication

Enable in Sucuri:

Malware scanning
File integrity monitoring
Firewall (if using Sucuri WAF)
Email alerts

Final Perspective

WP Ghost focuses on reducing exposure and blocking automated exploit attempts at the structural level.

Sucuri focuses on detection, monitoring, and remediation if something suspicious happens.

They do not conflict.
They reinforce each other.

For WordPress sites that require strong protection, combining architectural hardening (WP Ghost) with monitoring and malware detection (Sucuri) creates a layered security model that significantly improves overall resilience.

John Darrel