Ensuring your content and users are protected from bad actors is important for each web designer and content creator. No one wants to have their site highjacked by malicious code. Below are different settings I selected for my site, many advanced settings are not used in the WP Security plugin, since I am still learning how each will help or hinder my website. Too much security can cause access and communication errors.

With WP Cache plugin, it is a good idea to check all of the settings that are recommended. They are off by default and will need to be turned on. I opted out of receiving emails when the system does a preload as none of the time intervals were to my liking, but that might change in the future.
For my security I stayed with protection against spam, brute force, and doing backups.
Proxy comment will not allow commenting for proxy servers, were you find many spam comments come from. I also included settings for Cross Site Scripting (XSS) injection attacks where they use your POST or PHP to change your code.
If you allow commenting on your site, you will want to reduce the amount of SPAM comments you receive from a single IP address. This setting you can adjust to reduce or increase the attempts on IP address can send SPAM comments. This would be great in conjunction with you WP site settings where you comments are reviewed before posted. If you are not reviewing comments I would reduce this number to1 or 2 from one IP address
SPAM bots can be mitigated with this setting, you can use this auto detect spam bots and delete the comment. I chose for now, to keep them as spam and have them marked as such. Then they will be deleted after 20 days. I plan to review this page often to adjust the settings to better fit my website

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