There are various approaches to WP security, but I’ll vastly oversimplify it into two: Maginot Line or Kursk. (1)
Rambling thoughts about WordPress
DDoS;
DDoS Protection
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) is a large-scale attack using multiple IP addresses, attempting to overwhelm a site with requests, crashing it or slowing it to a crawl. DDoS attacks vary in sophistication. The most sophisticated use thousands of IPs accessing multiple URLs with random query strings to bypass caching and increase the CPU load.
