WordPress Hacked: Security Steps

Anyone who has a Wordpress site may have been hacked at one point in time or another. A hack may happen regardless of how diligent you are, but what can we do to help us identify attacks before they occur and what can we do to secure the Wordpress environment. I found some very helpful tools while perusing the internet for Wordpress exploits and solutions. The following are what I have discovered as extremely useful, there are some rules if you been hacked, and then some tools you can use to find future attacks easier as well as prevent them.