GuardGiant brute force protection

<p>The only plugin with 100% brute force protection that doesn’t lock out genuine users.</p>
<h4>Brute Force Protection</h4>
<p>This security plugin implements an approach used by large websites such as Facebook, Google etc.</p>
<p>When a genuine user makes a successful login to their account using their mobile phone, tablet, or computer GuardGiant starts treating their device as Trusted.</p>
<ul>
<li>Failed login attempts from trusted devices are directed towards ‘Lost Password’ forms rather than being subject to account lockouts or additional counter measures.</li>
<li>Users receive an alert when anyone logs into their account from an unrecognized device or browser.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Stop Hackers</h4>
<p>GuardGiant uses a range of strong counter-measures to limit login attempts from unrecognized devices. The default behaviour is:</p>
<ul>
<li>After 3 failed login attempts from the same unrecognized device, a Google ReCaptcha field is added to the login page. ReCaptcha is a strong counter-measure that is very hard for an automated process to solve.</li>
<li>After 10 failed login attempts a temporary block of 2 minutes is applied to the device/IP address. No login attempts can be made during this time.</li>
<li>Each further failed login attempt increases the block time by another minute. This slows down attacks to the point where they quickly become unviable.</li>
</ul>
<p>All behavior is fully customizable to achieve the level of brute force protection that you require.</p>
<h4>Login History</h4>
<p>A fully featured security log gives you visibility to login attempts on your site.</p>
<ul>
<li>Provides geographic location, device type, IP address and more for each login attempt.</li>
<li>Filter login attempts by Trusted or Unrecognized devices.</li>
<li>Search by IP address or username.</li>
<li>Filter by successful or failed attempts.</li>
<li>Easy to display successful logins from unrecognized devices that could indicate a hacked account.</li>
</ul>
<p>This login history  log should form an essential part of your brute force login protection plan. GDPR compliant.</p>
<h4>Other Login Security Improvements</h4>
<p>This security plugin implements various improvements recommended by the Open Web Application Security Project® (OWASP) to keep your site safe:</p>
<ul>
<li>Obfuscates login errors to stop hackers detecting valid account names.</li>
<li>Option to disable XMLRPC.</li>
<li>And much, much more.</li>
</ul>
<p>This security plugin is exceptionally easy to use no matter what your level of technical expertise.</p>
<p>The default settings are highly optimized, designed to prevent brute force attacks whilst not disturbing genuine users from logging in. Advanced users can fully customize the behavior of this plugin to suit their own environment.</p>
<h4>Login Security Plugin – Background Information</h4>
<p>The most common threat that WordPress site owners face is a password guessing attack known as a brute force attack.<br />
A brute force attack is where an attacker uses a brute force tool (or script) to discover your password by systematically trying every possible combination of letters, numbers, and symbols until the correct password is found. A brute force attack will always work eventually, but the problem for the brute force attacker is that it may take many years to do it.</p>
<p>Brute force prevention techniques focus on slowing down these attacks to the point where they become unviable.</p>
<p>Using long and complex passwords (that are not dictionary words) is a good brute force attack prevention method to start with. This greatly increases the time an attacker will need.</p>
<p>A common way to stop brute force attacks is to lock out the WordPress account after a defined number of failed authorization attempts (there are various brute force plugins that do this).<br />
The problem with this approach is that the site administrator ends up with unhappy users who have been locked out, often needing manual intervention to regain access. This is not sustainable or desirable for sites of any size.</p>
<p>The modern approach to brute force prevention is to track the devices that genuine users use to log in, ensuring they are always treated kindly if they forget their password. Unrecognized devices face a progressive but temporary timed lockout.</p>
<h4>Stop Brute Force Attacks</h4>
<p>Periodic monitoring of your security audit log can help you stop brute force attacks.</p>
<p>Here are patterns that indicate a brute force attack or some other account abuse:</p>
<ul>
<li>Failed login attempts using alphabetically sequential usernames or passwords</li>
<li>Multiple different usernames being used by the same IP address</li>
<li>Logins for a single account coming from many different IP addresses</li>
<li>Failed logins at a specific period e.g. every 5 minutes</li>
</ul>


WordPress Brute Force Protection – Stop Brute Force Attacks

The only plugin with 100% brute force protection that doesn't lock out genuine users.

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Shield Security

<p>Shield stops bot attacks before they hack your site. Bots CAN be stopped. Shield stops them.</p>
<h3>Key Security Features At A Glance</h3>
<h3>[PRO-Only] Zero-Configuration, Fast & Reliable WordPress Backups Included</h3>
<p>We’ve made WordPress backups faster than ever with our integrated WordPress Disaster Recovery Backups solution – <a href="https://clk.shldscrty.com/shieldbackups" rel="nofollow ugc">ShieldBACKUPS</a>.</p>
<p>No more risky Cloud Storage/OAuth credentials exposed on your sites; Backups that work without relying on a temperamental WordPress cron.</p>
<p>ShieldBACKUPS keeps your data off-site, encrypted, and far away from hackers.</p>
<h3><em>silent</em>CAPTCHA Bad Bot Protection</h3>
<p>Bad bots are your #1 security threat. They account for nearly all WordPress security probes, attacks, injections, malware, and vulnerability exploitation.</p>
<p>Google reCAPTCHA and CloudFlare Turnstile are considered the best way to detect bots, but these along with all other CAPTCHAs interrupt the user experience.</p>
<p>Shield’s exclusive <em>silent</em>CAPTCHA detects bad bots and blocks them from taking any abusive actions on your site, such as brute-force user login attacks and WP Comments SPAM.</p>
<p>Furthermore, privacy directives from legislation such as Europe’s GDPR restrict what data you may share of your visitors. All <em>silent</em>CAPTCHA data is kept on your WordPress site and ensures full compliance with GDPR regulations.</p>
<h3>Comprehensive Activity Log</h3>
<p>Shield’s has best-in-class logging that documents every WP action on your site.</p>
<p>Unlike existing logging solutions, Shield detects changes to your WordPress sites that happen directly on your database. e.g. by hackers that have infiltrated your defenses via an exposed vulnerability.</p>
<p>No other WordPress security plugin does this.</p>
<h3>Limit Login Attempts and Block User Registration SPAM</h3>
<p><em>silent</em>CAPTCHA technology is invisible to your visitors and protects your WordPress login, registration and lost password forms from brute force attacks, and eliminates user registration SPAM from bots.</p>
<h3>User Session Theft Protection</h3>
<p>Shield can lock user session to browsers, or IP addresses. Combine with 2FA (below), you can protect your users from session theft and account theft.</p>
<h3>Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for all users</h3>
<p>Two-Factor Authentication is a crucial part of WordPress user security. It protects against account theft, takeover, and sharing. Shield supports email-based login code, Google/Microsoft/Lastpass Authenticator, Yubikey One-Time Passwords and Passkeys (pro).</p>
<h3>Exclusive Security Admin Protection</h3>
<p>Not only does Shield Security protect your WordPress site, it also provides security against tampering of key WordPress options and the Shield Security plugin itself. With Shield’s exclusive Security Admin feature, you can lockdown the security plugin from other admins to prevent accidental or malicious changes that will impact your security.</p>
<h3>CrowdSec Partnership</h3>
<p>Shield is the only WordPress security plugin with strategic partnerships that bring powerful protection to your WordPress sites. With our CrowdSec integration, your WordPress sites benefit from crowd-sourced IP Block Lists so your site can block malicious bots before they can do any damage whatsoever.</p>
<h3>All The Features You’ll Absolutely Love</h3>
<ul>
<li>[ShieldPRO] ShieldBACKUPS – Disaster-proof your WordPress site with fast, reliable, easy WordPress backups!</li>
<li>Exclusive <a href="https://clk.shldscrty.com/ju" rel="nofollow ugc">silentCAPTCHA Security</a> – WordPress-specific bot-detection alternative to Google reCAPTCHA and CloudFlare Turnstile.</li>
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<li><strong>Instant Bad Bot Blocking with <a href="https://clk.shldscrty.com/l5" rel="nofollow ugc">our exclusive CrowdSec Security integration</a></strong></li>
<li>Easy To Understand Security Dashboard that highlights quick wins and areas to rapidly improve site security</li>
<li>[ShieldPRO] <a href="https://clk.shldscrty.com/lf" rel="nofollow ugc">Artificial Intelligence based PHP Malware Detection</a></li>
<li>Security for your important user forms, by blocking Block Bots:
<ul>
<li>Login Forms</li>
<li>User Registration Forms</li>
<li>Lost Password Reset Forms</li>
<li>[ShieldPRO] WooCommerce & Easy Digital Downloads</li>
<li>[ShieldPRO] Contact Form SPAM Protection: Contact Form 7, NinjaForms, Elementor, WP Forms, and more!</li>
<li>[ShieldPRO] Memberpress, LearnPress, BuddyPress, WP Members, ProfileBuilder</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="https://clk.shldscrty.com/iw" rel="nofollow ugc">Brute Force Security Protection, Limit Login Attempts + Login Cooldown</a></li>
<li>Powerful Firewall Rules</li>
<li>Restricted Security Admin Access
<ul>
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</ul>
</li>
<li>(MFA) <a href="https://clk.shldscrty.com/iy" rel="nofollow ugc">Two-Factor / Multi-Factor Login Authentication</a>:
<ul>
<li>Email</li>
<li>Google Authenticator</li>
<li>Yubikey</li>
<li>[ShieldPRO] Passkeys</li>
<li>[ShieldPRO] Backup Login Codes</li>
<li>[ShieldPRO] Multiple Yubikey per User</li>
<li>[ShieldPRO] Remember Me (reduces 2FA requests for users)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="https://clk.shldscrty.com/iz" rel="nofollow ugc">Block XML-RPC</a> (<em>including</em> Pingbacks and Trackbacks)</li>
<li>Security firewall for the REST API – block anonymous requests</li>
<li>Powerful IP Addresses-based Security:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://clk.shldscrty.com/j0" rel="nofollow ugc">Automatic IP Address Blocking Using Points-Based System</a></li>
<li>Block or Bypass individual IPs</li>
<li>Block or Bypass IP Subnets</li>
<li>Full IP Security Analysis in 1 place to review activity on your sites</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Comprehensive WordPress File Scanner for Intrusions and Hacks
<ul>
<li>Detect File Changes – <a href="https://clk.shldscrty.com/j1" rel="nofollow ugc">Scan & Repair WordPress Core Files</a></li>
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<li>Detect Abandoned Plugins.</li>
<li>[ShieldPRO] Malware Scanner – detects known and unknown malware.</li>
<li>[ShieldPRO] Plugin and Theme Scanning – identify file changes in your plugins/themes.</li>
<li>[ShieldPRO] Detect Plugins/Themes With Known Security Vulnerabilities.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="https://clk.shldscrty.com/j3" rel="nofollow ugc">Create a <strong>Private Secure Login URL</strong> by hiding wp-login.php</a></li>
<li>Comment SPAM Blocking – Block <a href="https://clk.shldscrty.com/jf" rel="nofollow ugc">Comment SPAM from Bots and Humans</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Never Block Google</strong>: Smart Security Automatically Detects Known Good Bots: GoogleBot, Bing and other Official Search Engines including:
<ul>
<li>Google</li>
<li>Bing,</li>
<li>DuckDuckGo</li>
<li>Yahoo!</li>
<li>Baidu</li>
<li>Apple</li>
<li>Yandex</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Automatically Detects 3rd Party Services and Prevents Blocking Of:
<ul>
<li>ManageWP / iControlWP / MainWP</li>
<li>Pingdom, NodePing, Statuscake, UptimeRobot, GTMetrix</li>
<li>Stripe, PayPal IPN</li>
<li>CloudFlare, SEMRush</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Full Security Activity Log – <a href="https://clk.shldscrty.com/j5" rel="nofollow ugc">Monitor <strong>All</strong> Site Activity, including</a>:
<ul>
<li>Activity log for all user login & registration attempts</li>
<li>Plugin and Theme installation activity logs, including activation & deactivation etc.</li>
<li>User creation activity log, including detection of administrator promotions</li>
<li>Activity log for Page/Post create, update, delete</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Advanced User Sessions Control
<ul>
<li>Restrict Multiple User Login</li>
<li>Restrict Users Session To IP</li>
<li>Password Security – Block Pwned Passwords</li>
<li>User Enumeration Blocking – Firewall blocks requests to <code>?author=x</code></li>
<li>[ShieldPRO] Security for old and idle user account with manual and automatic User Suspend.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Full/Automatic Support for All IP Address Sources including Proxy Support</li>
<li>HTTP Request/Traffic Logging – <a href="https://clk.shldscrty.com/j7" rel="nofollow ugc">Full Traffic Logging and Request Monitoring</a></li>
<li>[ShieldPRO] Traffic Rate Limiting Security – prevent server overload from DoS Attacks</li>
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</ul>
<h4><a href="https://clk.shldscrty.com/shieldfeatures" rel="nofollow ugc">Full Shield Security Features List</a></h4>
<p>Shield is the only security plugin for WordPress that prioritises protection and intrusion prevention before repair. With Shield Security, your site will immediately to block visitors as they probe your site looking for vulnerabilities, and before they can do damage.</p>
<p><strong>No other standalone WordPress security plugin</strong> (including <a href="https://clk.shldscrty.com/shieldvswordfence" rel="nofollow ugc">Wordfence</a>, WP Cerber, Ninja Firewall, All-In-One Security) approaches security in this way. The 1st step in any good security system is Intrusion Detection/Prevention, the 2nd step is repair. Shield Security does both.</p>
<h4>Get the highest rated 5* Security Plugin for WordPress</h4>
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<h3>Leave Behind the Security Marketing Hype and Scare Mongering</h3>
<p>Our solution isn’t designed to scare you and make you feel unsafe.</p>
<h3>2 Key WordPress Security Strategies</h3>
<p>Shield Security uses 2 simple key strategies to protect your WordPress sites:</p>
<ol>
<li>Intrusion Prevention System – Detect Bots/Malicious IPs that will try to hack and invade your WordPress sites.</li>
<li>Block & Recover – Block Bad Bots and Repair Hacks</li>
</ol>
<h4>Key Security Strategy #1: Hacking Prevention</h4>
<p>Bad Bots are the primary cause for nearly all our security troubles – they’re relentless, automatic and powerful.</p>
<p>Shield Security is highly focused on their detection and eradication from your WordPress sites.</p>
<p>Blocking malicious bots before they do damage through malware and exploitation of vulnerabilities is the #1 security strategy to protect and enhance security on a WordPress site.</p>
<p>Shield detects these malicious visitors, then blocks their access to your site completely. This involves analysing different security bot-signals and combining them to identify a visitor as malicious.</p>
<p>These security signals include:</p>
<ul>
<li>site probes that generate 404 errors</li>
<li>failed logins</li>
<li>logins with invalid usernames</li>
<li>xml-rpc access</li>
<li>fake search engine web crawlers</li>
<li>invalid user agents</li>
<li>excessive website requests and resource abuse</li>
<li>and many more signals our security team have identified.</li>
</ul>
<p>Early identification and blocking of malicious bots reduces your WordPress site’s vulnerability to any sort of attack.</p>
<h4>Key Strategy #2: Hacking Recovery</h4>
<p>Even with the best security efforts, a site can get hacked. This usually involves file modification: either a hack file is added, or a file is changed.</p>
<p>There are 3 key WordPress assets whose files can be hacked:</p>
<ol>
<li>WordPress Core</li>
<li>WordPress Plugins</li>
<li>WordPress Themes</li>
</ol>
<p>Almost every security plugin can now do #1 – it’s easy because WordPress.org provides <em>checksums</em> for core files.</p>
<p>But, there are no hashes available for plugins and themes, particularly premium plugins, so they can’t do it.</p>
<p>Shield is <strong>the only WordPress security plugin</strong> that offers accurate detection of file modifications for all plugins and themes because we <strong>build our own file fingerprints</strong>.</p>
<p>Shield can compare the file contents of every plugin & theme in the WordPress.org repository, looking for changed or new files</p>
<p>And, if you’re a ShieldPRO client, you can protect premium plugins/themes too, including Yoast SEO and Advanced Custom Fields Pro.</p>
<p>Where possible, Shield will repair any unrecognised/modified files it detects.</p>
<h4>Non-stop Security Notifications Are Not Okay.</h4>
<p>Your security plugin must be smarter, and take responsibility for decisions, so you don’t have to.</p>
<p>Shield handles many problems for you, making intelligent decisions without noisy email notifications.</p>
<h3>Dedicated Premium Support When You Go PRO</h3>
<p>The Shield Security team prioritises email technical support over the WordPress.org forums.<br />
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Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches

Shield stops bot attacks before they hack your site. Bots CAN be stopped. Shield stops them.

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