Denyhosts Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   CrowdSec

    25 likes

   CrowdSec is a security automation engine, using both local IP behavior detection & our community-driven IP reputation database.

   9 CrowdSec alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free Personal
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Firewall

   Origin

   • France
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Self-Hosted

   

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   Fail2ban

    39 likes

   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

   • Firewall

   Origin

   • International

   Platforms

   • Linux

   • Global

   

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   SSHGuard

    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

   • Firewall

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux

   

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   IPBanPro

    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 typeApplication types

   • Firewall
   • Remote Desktop

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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   reaction

    3 likes

   Inspired by the honorable Fail2ban, it intend to provide a more lightweight (CPU wise) alternative, easy to configure and well documented.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Firewall

   Platforms

   • Self-Hosted
   • Linux

   

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   RdpGuard

    6 likes

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

   16 RdpGuard alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Paid
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Remote Desktop

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Windows

   • United States

   

   

   

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   IPQ BDB

    3 likes

   IPQ BDB filtering is done by a user space netfilter 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 non-distributed dictionary attacks and mitigate spam.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Firewall

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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    Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense

     2 likes

    Out-of-the-box security for Remote Deskop, Exchange, OWA, SharePoint, CRM, generic IIS applications and many other server systems.

    13 Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Origin

    • Germany
    • EU

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows

    • Germany
    • EU

    

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    Pyruse

     2 likes

    Light-weight and extra-configurable peruser of systemd journal logs: ban IP, send immediate email, daily report… all based on a single JSON configuration file.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted

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    Hookem-Banem

     2 likes

    Built to react fast in server farms environments (ISPs, HSPs, organisations...) Hookem-Banem is a log monitoring system which monitors logs being sent to a central server (syslog, file...) and on detection of malicious intent (repeated login failures, many failed RCPT commands...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application type

    • Firewall

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted

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    SpyLog

     1 like

    Monitor logs from several sources and execute actions based on some rules. Can be used to protect against brute-force attacks.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows

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    Sentry (Bruteforce attack blocker)

     1 like

    Prevents Brute Force Attacks Against SSH, FTP, SMTP and More.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Firewall

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD

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