Defense-in-Depth WordPress Hardening with Wordfence, Really Simple Security, Cloudflare, and pfSense/HAProxy
Modern WordPress attacks don’t just target your login page—they probe XML-RPC, brute-force APIs, enumerate plugins, scan theme directories, drop PHP shells into /wp-content/, and hit known backdoor filenames like style.php. A secure WordPress deployment in 2025 requires a layered, defense-in-depth architecture where each system blocks threats at the level where…