e.guardo Smart Defender Alternatives

e.guardo Smart Defender is described as 'Guards internet-facing systems from brute force, DDoS, and spoofing using system log analysis, dynamic security rules, and global IP blacklists for multiple services' and is an app in the online services category. There are more than 10 alternatives to e.guardo Smart Defender for Windows, Linux, Self-Hosted and Mac. The best e.guardo Smart Defender alternative is Fail2ban, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like e.guardo Smart Defender are SSHGuard, IPBanPro, Denyhosts and RdpGuard.

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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

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    • Linux
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    • Fail2ban is the most popular Linux alternative to e.guardo Smart Defender.

    • Fail2ban is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to e.guardo Smart Defender.

    • Fail2ban is Free and Open Sourcee.guardo Smart Defender is Paid and Proprietary
    • Fail2ban is Lightweight and Privacy focusede.guardo Smart Defender 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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     

    • SSHGuard is the most popular Mac alternative to e.guardo Smart Defender.

    • SSHGuard is Free and Open Sourcee.guardo Smart Defender is Paid and Proprietary
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    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.

    15 IPBanPro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     

    • IPBanPro is the most popular Windows alternative to e.guardo Smart Defender.

    • IPBanPro is the most popular commercial alternative to e.guardo Smart Defender.

    • IPBanPro is Paid and Open Sourcee.guardo Smart Defender is Paid and Proprietary
  5. Denyhosts icon

    Denyhosts

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    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 scripts which do not offer the elegance of Python.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. RdpGuard icon

    RdpGuard

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

    15 RdpGuard alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

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    • Windows
    RdpGuard allows you to block/unblock attacker's ip address automatically
     
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    SpyLog

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    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

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. IPQ BDB icon

    IPQ BDB

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    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

    Platforms

    • Linux
     

  11. Hookem-Banem

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    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     

    • Hookem-Banem is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to e.guardo Smart Defender.

    • Hookem-Banem is Free and Open Sourcee.guardo Smart Defender is Paid and Proprietary
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    AiP Defense

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    Your Microsoft Windows servers are probably under constant attack and you may not even know it! Chances are if your hosting remote desktop, or other services such as Microsoft exchange, FTP, HTTP, HTTP’s or SQL. Your server is likely getting bombarded with failed login attempts.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Syspeace

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    Syspeace automatically blocks brute force attacks primarily for Windows Servers with good information in the admin mils telling you DNS names, country of origin and username used for the attack.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  14. mobileFX Spartan RDP Guard icon

    mobileFX Spartan RDP Guard

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    mobileFX Spartan RDP Guard is an intrusion detection system (IDS) and host-based intrusion prevention system (HIPS) implemented as a Windows 64-bit or 32-bit Service with location-based attack reporting and instant notifications.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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