Is it the same functionnality that iThemes Security provide ?
If I understand correctly Jetpack last year took over a brute force plugin named BruteProtect. This technology is now integrated into Jetpack.
Just did a quick read on the functionality. Looks very basic.
Just a checkbox to enable\disable the Brute force protection option and the possibility to whitelist ip addresses.
Also some feedback reported on the number of blocked malicious login attempts from the WP Dashboard.
And finally it seems it allows you to scan your site for malicious code.
All of these features are already included in iThemes Security (Pro) where the iTSec plugin offers you a lot more settings to tweak things.
Should we have both activated ? Or should we chose one of them ?
No I don’t think you need both.
Actually I found some clues in the iTSec plugin Brute Force Protection code that seem to indicate that the iTSec plugin already scans for Jetpack and if found will disable the Jetpack Protect feature.
function run() {
add_filter( 'jetpack_get_default_modules', array( $this, 'jetpack_get_default_modules' ) ); //disable jetpack protect via George Stephanis
}
/**
* Disables the jetpack protect module
*
* Sent by George Stephanis
*
* @since 4.5
*
* @param array $modules array of Jetpack modules
*
* @return array array of Jetpack modules
*/
public function jetpack_get_default_modules( $modules ) {
return array_diff( $modules, array( 'protect' ) );
}
Please note my answers are based on experience with iThemes Security only.
Don’t know anything about Jetpack (other than what I just read on the web).
dwinden
