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  SSHGuard

  Open Source |

  Mac, Linux

  Not an alternative?

  Sshguard monitors services through their logging activity. It reacts to messages about dangerous activity by blocking the source address with the local firewall. Sshguard employs a clever parser that can...

    Security & Privacy   security, firewall, freebsd, log-monitoring, solaris

  +2 more intrusion-detection, bruteforce

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  Denyhosts

  Open Source |

  Linux

  Not an alternative?

  The idea of denying access to SSH servers is nothing new and I was inspired by many other scripts that I discovered. However, none of them did things the way I envisioned them to. Also, they were all shell...

    security, daemon, bruteforce, ssh-bruteforce

  +1 more log-parser

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  IPBan

  Open Source by Digital Ruby, LLC |

  Windows

  Not an alternative?

  A FREE and open source application that allows banning ip addresses from failed terminal services or SQL server logins out of the box. Other types of banning are easily added via an application configuration...

    Network & Admin   security, remote-desktop, terminal-services

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  e.guardo Smart Defender

  Commercial by VERITEKNIK |

  Windows, Online

  Not an alternative?

  e.guardo protects your RDP, MSSQL, FTP, SMTP, EXCHANGE, OWA, LYNC, MICROSOFT DYNAMICS CRM, SHAREPOINT and many more services from Brute Force and Dictionary Attacks

    Security & Privacy   plugin / add-on You can integrate any application with Free XML API and Develper API, security, security-tool, ddos

  +8 more online-service, brute-force, brute-force-attack, dictionary-attack, ddos-attack, brute-force-protection, dictionary-attack-protection, hacker-protection

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  IPQ BDB

  Open Source |

  Linux

  Not an alternative?

  IPQ BDB filtering is done by a user space daemon that issues verdicts after looking up the IP address in a Berkeley DB. The fuzzy blocking model, freely inspired by STOCKADE, is designed to block...

    Security & Privacy   firewall, gnu

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  RdpGuard

  Commercial by NetSDK Software |

  Windows

  Not an alternative?

  RdpGuard allows you to protect your Remote Desktop (RDP) from brute-force attacks by blocking attacker's IP address. Fail2Ban for Windows.

    Network & Admin   remote-desktop, rdp

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• etempm

  Jan 2013 Added E-Guardo Smart Defender as an alternative to Fail2ban

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  Jun 2012 Added IPBan as an alternative to Fail2ban

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  Apr 2012 Added RdpGuard as an alternative to Fail2ban

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  Oct 2011 Added SSHGuard as an alternative to Fail2ban

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  Nov 2010 Edited Fail2ban

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