Advanced Policy Firewall AlternativesFirewalls and other similar apps like Advanced Policy Firewall

Advanced Policy Firewall is described as 'Server-based firewall. Reacts to attacks with intelligent abilities to detect malicious attempts to enter and reacting by blocking the IP temporarily. Repeated hits will ban the IP completely' and is a Firewall in the security & privacy category. There are seven alternatives to Advanced Policy Firewall for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Web-based, VirtualBox, VMware vSphere Hypervisor and Microsoft Hyper-V Server apps. The best Advanced Policy Firewall alternative is SSHGuard, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Advanced Policy Firewall are Shorewall, ConfigServer Firewall, CacheGuard-OS and iptablesbuild.

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  1. SSHGuard icon
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    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 transparently recognize several logging formats at once (syslog, syslog-ng...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
    • SSHGuard is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Advanced Policy Firewall.

    • SSHGuard is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Advanced Policy Firewall.

    • SSHGuard is Free and Open SourceAdvanced Policy Firewall is also Free and Open Source
  2. Shorewall icon
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    The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as “Shorewall”, is high-level tool for configuring Netfilter. You describe your firewall/gateway requirements using entries in a set of configuration files. Shorewall reads those configuration files and with the help of the iptables...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. CacheGuard-OS icon
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    All CacheGuard products and services are focused on delivering secured and optimized Web contents to our clients. To achieve that goal we made CacheGuard OS which is our core product. Once installed on a virtual or hardware machine, CacheGuard OS turns it into a powerful Web...

    135 CacheGuard-OS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • VirtualBox
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server
    • Proxmox Virtual Environment
     
    • CacheGuard-OS is the most popular Windows alternative to Advanced Policy Firewall.

    • CacheGuard-OS is the most popular commercial alternative to Advanced Policy Firewall.

    • CacheGuard-OS is Paid and ProprietaryAdvanced Policy Firewall is Free and Open Source
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    iptablesbuild is effectively a configuration manager for iptables. It is intended to manage iptables configurations in a centralized location for multiple systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    ferm is a tool to maintain complex firewalls, without having the trouble to rewrite the complex rules over and over again. ferm allows the entire firewall rule set to be stored in a separate file, and to be loaded with one command.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. HeatShield icon
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    HeatShield is a network firewall management service for Linux servers. A firewall configured by HeatShield prevents unauthorized access to services running on your servers, such as SSH and MySQL. Using HeatShield, you can easily restrict access to these services so that only IP...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
     
    • HeatShield is the most popular Web-based alternative to Advanced Policy Firewall.

    • HeatShield is Freemium and ProprietaryAdvanced Policy Firewall is Free and Open Source
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