Sam Hotchkiss has been developing with WordPress since 2005, and heads up Hotchkiss Consulting Group, a small team of WordPress ninjas based out of Bath, Maine. Sam is also the lead developer of BruteProtect, a plugin which protects WordPress sites against brute force attacks using a central database of malicious IPs. As of early December, BruteProtect had blocked over 17m malicious login attempts across over 17,000 sites.