ConfigServer Firewall AlternativesFirewalls and other similar apps like ConfigServer Firewall

ConfigServer Firewall is described as 'A Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall, Login/Intrusion Detection and Security application for Linux servers' and is a Firewall in the network & admin category. There are eight alternatives to ConfigServer Firewall for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, VirtualBox and VMware vSphere Hypervisor apps. The best ConfigServer Firewall alternative is Fail2ban, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like ConfigServer Firewall are SSHGuard, IPBanPro, AIDE and CacheGuard-OS.

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  1. Fail2ban icon

    Fail2ban

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    Fail2ban scans log files (e.g. /var/log/apache/error_log) and bans IPs that show the malicious signs -- too many password failures, seeking for exploits, etc. Generally Fail2Ban is then used to update firewall rules to reject the IP addresses for a specified amount of time...

    21 Fail2ban alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    • Fail2ban is the most popular Linux alternative to ConfigServer Firewall.

    • Fail2ban is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to ConfigServer Firewall.

    • Fail2ban is Free and Open SourceConfigServer Firewall is Free and Proprietary
    • Fail2ban is Lightweight and Privacy focusedConfigServer Firewall is not according to our users
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    SSHGuard

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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 alternative to ConfigServer Firewall.

    • SSHGuard is Free and Open SourceConfigServer Firewall is Free and Proprietary
  4. IPBanPro icon

    IPBanPro

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    IPBan is a FREE and open source application that allows auto banning ip addresses from failed login attempts. Many sources are watched such as SSH, SMTP, SQL-Server, MySQL, RDP and dropped packets.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     

    • IPBanPro is the most popular Windows alternative to ConfigServer Firewall.

    • IPBanPro is the most popular commercial alternative to ConfigServer Firewall.

    • IPBanPro is Paid and Open SourceConfigServer Firewall is Free and Proprietary
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    AIDE

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    AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a file and directory integrity checker.

    9 AIDE alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. CacheGuard-OS icon

    CacheGuard-OS

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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...

    136 CacheGuard-OS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • VirtualBox
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server
    • Proxmox Virtual Environment
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  7. Advanced Policy Firewall

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     

  9. iptablesbuild

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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
     

  10. ferm

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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
     
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