Wordfence comes with an endpoint firewall as well as a malware scanner. These were designed from the ground up to protect WordPress. Wordfence is protected by Threat Defense Feed, which provides it with the most recent firewall rules, malware signatures, and malicious IP addresses. Wordfence offers the most comprehensive security options available, rounded out by an array of additional features.
Wordfence runs on your server at the endpoint and provides better protection than cloud-based alternatives. Cloud firewalls can be bypassed, but have historically been vulnerable to data leaks. Wordfence firewall uses user identity information to implement over 85% of our firewall rules. This is something that cloud firewalls don’t have access too. Our firewall doesn't have to break end-to–end encryption like cloud solutions.