Everyone using a blog wants to make sure that it is secure and cannot be accessed by unauthorized personnel.
Therefore securing a blog is vital.
Since most bloggers use WordPress these days, I will talk about some steps to make it more safe.
These steps come in the form of plugins that need to be installed.
I personally recommend 3 plugins that every WordPress bloggers should use on his blog.
The first plugin is called Login Lockdown.
This neat plugin stops malicious users from guessing the password for a certain account.
After a certain number of failed attempts to log in the hacker will automatically be banned for a certain period of time.
Another essential plugin is HTTPS for WordPress.
By using this plugin you have to log into your WordPress Dashboard using HTTPS.
What is actually good about that? When logging in only using HTTP your private credentials are sent in plain text through the networks.
On the other hand if you use HTTPS, then your credentials are encrypted which of course is much more safe.
To further harden WordPress you should install WP-Scanner from Blogsecurity.
The plugin actually scans all directory to see if there are no possible leaks.
It further advises you about security concerns, for example it tells you whether you are still using the default WordPress table prefix and lets you automatically change it.
In the end I hope that this gave you an overview of what you can do to make your blog more secure.
There are even more plugins available but most of them are not that different in how they make your blog safer.