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We recently had a potential customer ask if our firewall plugin protected against brute force attacks as they believed the Wordfence Security plugin is doing. They also noted that using something different than what Wordfence Security provides would seem like less protection, even if it was better protection. When it comes to brute force attacks, they have hit the nail on the head, as those are not even happening. Wordfence is pretending something that WordPress already provides effective protection against isn’t happening and instead brute force attacks are happening, which requires something that WordPress doesn’t have built-in protection against.
Here is how Wordfence describes brute force attacks: [Read more]