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Last week, we compared the WordPress firewall plugins BBQ Firewall and Wordfence Security, after noticing that Google’s Search console showed that a lot of people were coming to our website looking for that comparison, despite us not having one. The results also showed a lot of people looking for a comparison of NinjaFirewall to Wordfence Security, but the top result for that search is a page comparing Wordfence Security to Security Ninja, which is unrelated to NinjaFirewall. So it seems like a comparison between the two would be useful to provide.
The most important thing to know about WordPress firewall plugins is the amount of protection they offer against real threats, but we are somehow the only ones that do testing that would measure that. A lot of the claimed threats that WordPress security plugins claim to protect against are not really threats. What is a real threat is vulnerabilities in other plugins being exploited and that is something that firewall plugins can provide protection against. The developers of NinjaFirewall and Wordfence Security both provide protection against those, but how much? [Read more]