If you want to find an alternative to MalCare for the best website security possible, we encourage you to research your options and read online reviews. It is important to make an informed decision about who to trust with your website, reputation, and business.
We reviewed our sales calls and chat transcripts to see what users said when considering alternatives to MalCare. We also read what MalCare customers were saying online, contacted their support team, and researched their website.
MalCare
MalCare is a WordPress security plugin that offers malware removal, website protection, and daily monitoring. MalCare also offers automatic cleanups and an emergency malware cleanup for $250.
Sucuri
Sucuri is a cloud-based website security provider that specializes in website malware research. With Sucuri, businesses and web professionals can protect their websites, improve performance, monitor for indicators of compromise, and receive unlimited support for security incidents.
Sucuri is an alternative to MalCare with the best cost-benefit in the market. The main difference between MalCare and Sucuri is the years of experience that Sucuri has cleaning and protecting websites. Sucuri is a complete website security platform compatible with all CMS. After the malware removal process is complete, Sucuri customers can protect and speed their websites under the Sucuri Web Application Firewall.
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Sucuri | MalCare |
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| Malware Removal Limitations | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Web Application Firewall (WAF) Protection | Yes | Yes |
| SSL Certificate (on WAF) | Yes | – |
| DNS Management | Yes | – |
| Smart Caching Options | Yes | – |
| Virtual Patching & Hardening | Yes | – |
| DDoS Attack Mitigation | Yes | Yes |
| Zero-Day Exploits Prevention | Yes | – |
| CDN and Performance Boost | Yes | – |
| GDPR Compliant | Yes | Yes |
| Daily File Integrity Scan | Yes | Yes |
For one annual fee, Sucuri offers website cleanup, monitoring and protection, with unlimited malware removal requests. Both Sucuri and MalCare are GDPR-compliant companies. What makes Sucuri shine in the website security space is its professional research team that works relentlessly to protect your website from all hacks and attacks, including zero-day attacks.
Sucuri offers unlimited malware removal in all Website Security Platform plans. Even if your website is reinfected, you will be able to open a malware removal ticket, and Sucuri’s remediation team will clean your website. This includes automated cleanup, manual inspection, and a complete report of the quarantined files. By comparison, MalCare offers an automatic clean up process by clicking a button; however, if the infection is not removed, their customers need to open a support request by email.
Some website security companies have pricing tiers based on the number of website files cleaned. Sucuri does not charge extra for large websites, databases, or manual cleanups. Website uptime is crucial to running a successful business so we want to make website security available to as many businesses as possible. Sucuri has a money-back policy in case we are unable to clean the malware.
No matter how complex or difficult the malware removal, our remediation team will clean your website. Sucuri has a predictable pricing system based on the level of response required. The cost also includes one year of ongoing monitoring and protection with the Sucuri Web Application Firewall. For web professionals, Sucuri offers volume discounts and the flexibility to protect client projects.
Sucuri researchers work night and day to stay on top of new website threats. In 2018, the Sucuri Firewall successfully protected websites from 99% of zero-day vulnerabilities. These types of security flaws are not known to software developers, meaning that security patches aren’t available. Despite this, the Sucuri Firewall blocks the vast majority of these exploitation attempts. Sucuri has a proprietary vulnerability research team that works around the clock to remain on top of website infections in the wild.
The Sucuri Firewall is included in all plans. We are serious about performance so we use several techniques to make your site faster. Sucuri offers website protection and increased performance with Sucuri’s global Anycast content delivery network. The Sucuri CDN caches your website content automatically, increasing the website speed by over 90%. Malcare does not speed up your website because its firewall doesn’t act as a CDN. We deliver a better-protected and faster website. bal Anycast content delivery network. The Sucuri CDN caches your website content automatically, increasing the website speed by over 60%.
What makes Sucuri the best WAF for small businesses and developers?
Thought Leaders in Website Security
Sucuri Labs offers unique insights that together with our Sucuri Blog help millions of website owners protect their property. This has earned us press and media mentions from top news outlets, industry blogs, and cybersecurity journalists.
A Safe Internet Is Our Mission
We offer SiteCheck Scanner for free and create DIY guides to help prevent or fix website hacks. Our customers recommend Sucuri in over 70 customer studies and over 200 reviews on Gartner that earned us a Customer’s Choice distinction.
Don’t take our word for it. See what website owners like you have to say.
ilacweb, Naime Yildirim
I tried to find some help, I tried to find a security company and a professional solution to websites regularly, with affordable payments. The two options that I found at first were not providing a security support for a term like one year. They were offering “cleaning” for one time. I thought these options would be temporary and this means that my website can be hacked again, then that would be frankly a waste of time and money for me. The third option that I found was thankfully, Sucuri.Read More
James Tracey Photography
Within two hours my site was clean and safe to use. As I am technically limited, I wasn’t sure how to setup the prevention and firewall and again support was superb in setting everything up for me within half an hour.”Read More
Financial Ducks in a Row, Jim Blankenship
“If you don’t want to learn to be a system administrator and you want to be able to resolve hacker/malware attacks quickly, Sucuri is an excellent choice to take care of this part of your business. It’s one less thing to worry about.”Read More
Lightweb, Oscar Lundgren
We will never ever clean a site on our own again. We are extremely happy with the swiftness, professionalism and accuracy Sucuri delivers. We are now pointing any hacked clients to Sucuri, and all have been satisfied this far.Read More
Softwear Systems, Mitch Meyer
You guys got me up and running. That’s when I said I’m done and decided to stop with SiteLock and go with Sucuri 100%. I’m a small entity here. SiteLock is not designed for small entity. They’re designed for someone who has a lot of capital. What about the small business owner like me? They didn’t take care of that person, but Sucuri does – and the large.Read More
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