DMN (Security Centre) vs WP Fail2Ban Redux

The DMN (Security Centre) plugin provides an easy way to keep your Wordfence security whitelist updated with all DMN services without having to check it all the time. This will automatically check and ensure that the whitelist is kept updated once a day. This service requires external communication with DMNs devstage server to aquire the office IP address which will be whitelisted. By using this plugin you agree that the service can be used and communicated with. The DMN (Security Centre) plugin can be easily activated and deactivated from the WordPress dashboard, and requires no additional configuration or setup.

WP Fail2Ban Redux records various WordPress events to your server’s system log for integration with Fail2Ban. This plugin is (mostly) a drop-in replacement for WP fail2ban by Charles Lecklider. While WP fail2ban is a great plugin, there are a number of improvements that could be made. In order to facilitate these improvements, a major refactoring of the codebase was necessary. The core functionality between WP Fail2Ban Redux and WP fail2ban remains the same. WP Fail2Ban Redux is considered to be mostly a drop-in replacement, because all constants have been replaced with filters, and will, possibly, require some upgrade work. Don’t work it’s as simple as implementing the constants. The following events are recorded by default: Failed XML-RPC authentication attempts. Successful authentication attempts. Failed authentication attempts — differentiated by a user’s existence. Pingback errors. The following events can be enabled via filter: Pingback requests. Blocked user enumeration attempts. Authentication attempts for blocked usernames. Spammed comments. Extra documentation is available on the WP Fail2Ban Redux GitHub Wiki.