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Brainwerk Security Suite
The European answer for privacy-first WordPress security — from the EU, for the EU. GDPR-ready, Multisite-first, no outbound calls by default.
Brainwerk Security Suite ranks #53,313 among WordPress.org plugins with 1+ active installations, is #2,698 of 4,596 in the Security category, a 1/5 rating from 0 reviews, and was last updated Jul 31, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Tested up to WP 7 (Current: 7.1.2)
v0.15.0
Current Version v0.15.0
Updated 1 month ago
Last Update on 31 Jul, 2026
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- Version
- 0.15.0
- Last Updated
- Jul 31, 2026
- Requires WP
- 5.8+
- Tested Up To
- 7
- PHP Version
- 7.4 or higher
- Author
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Brainwerk Security Suite
Not until you ask it to. Out of the box the plugin makes no automatic outbound calls. Every integration that can reach an external service is opt-in and off by default: The plugin/theme/core vulnerability scanner. Once you enable it, it queries an EU-hosted vulnerability API (default https://shieldforge-intel.brainwerk.at/) once per day for the slug + version of each installed component. Nothing else (no site URL, no admin email, no IP, no user data) is sent, and you can point it at a self-hosted mirror under Brainwerk Security Suite → Vulnerabilities → Settings. The Threat Network sensor, the Have-I-Been-Pwned password check, an optional hCaptcha / Cloudflare Turnstile captcha, and the on-demand WordPress.org core-checksum / repository integrity checks. Each is documented in full in the External services section below. The core local features (file-integrity monitor, malware-pattern scan, brute-force protection, audit log, 2FA, honeypot, anomaly detection, security headers) make no outbound calls.
It is built to support your GDPR obligations: IP anonymization, configurable retention, and a published data map are on by default, and the admin includes copy-paste-ready text for your privacy policy. Full legal compliance always depends on how you run your whole site, so treat these as strong technical building blocks rather than legal advice.
Yes. Network-activate it and configure once at the network level; per-site overrides are supported.
Use one of the 8 recovery codes generated when you enrolled. If you also lost those, an administrator with manage_network_options capability can disable 2FA for any user under Brainwerk Security Suite → 2FA → Users with 2FA configured → Rescue: disable.
Add this line to wp-config.php (above the "That's all" comment): define('SHIELDFORGE_LOGIN_RESCUE', 'choose-a-long-random-secret'); Then visit https://your-site/wp-login.php?shieldforge_rescue=choose-a-long-random-secret to bypass the 404 and reach the standard login.
It is designed to be lightweight. Hooks fire only where needed, the database tables are indexed, and old log rows are cleaned up daily. The file-integrity scanner runs at 03:30 in a 45-second time-budgeted cron sweep that resumes on the next tick if a single run can't finish.
Brainwerk Security Suite reads $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] by default. If your nginx / Apache is configured to forward the original client IP (PROXY-protocol, X-Forwarded-For), that's what arrives in PHP and Brainwerk Security Suite uses it. The healthcheck card on every admin screen will warn you if all visitors arrive as 127.0.0.1 — that means the proxy chain is hiding the real client from PHP, which would silently disable IP-based brute-force protection. Fix it at the proxy / web-server layer (proxy-protocol-aware listener) before re-enabling brute-force protection.
