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Protection starts with traffic analysis. Shield immediately blocks malicious traffic that’s intended to infiltrate your site, execute malicious code, or by-...

It's important to understand what the Shield Security's Firewall does not do. Since this is an application level firewall, it can only deal wi...

There are 9 Firewall Blocking options that determine what data is checked on each page request. Depending on certain incompatibilities with other plugins, y...

Firewall Block Response specifies how the Shield plugin will respond when the firewall detects malicious data.  Firewall Block Response options explanation...

It’s possible to specify certain factors that completely by-pass all Firewall checking. In principle, you should not need to whitelist anything or anyone un...

This article has been kept here for link continuity purposes but the Firewall module no-longer contains an IP manual black list feature. The current IP...

Directory Traversal or Path Traversal is an HTTP exploit that allows an attacker to access restricted files, directories and commands that reside outside th...

If you see the firewall block in your Audit Trail, for example \r\n\r\n pingback.ping\r\n \r\n \r\n .............. \r\n \r\n ... this could be a WordPress...

This is a firewall block message. The firewall component of the Shield Security plugin is an Application Level Firewall. This means it only acts, and ca...