WordPress Brute Force Attack

I recently had to deal with brute force attacks on a couple of my WordPress installations causing a very high load on my server. One installation was my directory so I thought I would share. Here are some recommended security plugins to assist with this security issue –

Limit Login Attempts (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/limit-login-attempts)
WP Login Security 2 (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-login-security-2)
Login Security Solution (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/login-security-solution)
Bulletproof Security (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bulletproof-security)
2 Factor Authorization by Duo Security (https://www.duosecurity.com/docs/wordpress)