Crawlers, bad bots, and scrapers hit your WordPress site every day causing the usage of the server resources, extensive consumption, and content scraping. Threat actors search for all types of vulnerabilities to crash or compromise your server and get access to your WordPress dashboard, databases, and servers. Skutum is powered by the application firewall that identifies each and every request and source on your website, without data sampling, allowing you to detect any malicious activity... The current plugin version allows you to perform deep traffic analysis and get detailed statistics on traffic and request types dividing them into three categories humans, SEO bots and bad bots.. Request type humans, SEO bots or bad bots, plus the number of requests per each type.. Extra statistics on the bad bots IP addresses, countries that send the number of requests... At the moment the plugin doesn't block activity and bad bots it works as diagnostic and traffic analysis tool that provides you with sufficient statistics.. The future plugin releases will include the ability to turn on the bad bot blocking system tune advanced settings to meet your needs... Upload the plugin files to the wp-content plugins skutum-wp directory, or install the plugin through WordPress plugins screen directly.. Interested in development.., check out SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS...
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