> I assume this in no way provides protection from them. No it does not appear so. But recently we've seen a huge uptick of brute force password attacks again

> I assume this in no way provides protection from them. No it does not appear so. But recently we've seen a huge uptick of brute force password attacks against our WP installs. These are trying common username and password combinations. To combat these attacks we've started deploying a brute force detection and blocking plugin across our entire platform. But we've also looked at adding two factor authentication as well.