ConfigServer Firewall AlternativesFirewalls and other similar apps like ConfigServer Firewall

Apps similar to ConfigServer Firewall include Fail2ban, which is free and open source. Other options are SSHGuard, IPBanPro, CacheGuard Gateway and AIDE. In total there are eight Firewalls like ConfigServer Firewall for Linux, self-hosting, Mac and Windows.

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  1. Fail2ban icon
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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...

    25 Fail2ban alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  2. SSHGuard icon
     26 likes

    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
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  3. IPBanPro icon
     7 likes

    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

    • Paid
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. CacheGuard Gateway is a free, open-source network security appliance for startups, growing businesses, and SMEs/SMBs that need enterprise-grade protection without the complexity or cost.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • VirtualBox
    • Self-Hosted
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server
    • Proxmox Virtual Environment
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  5.  4 likes

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

    11 AIDE alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  6. 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
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  7. 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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  8.  1 like

    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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