e.guardo Smart Defender Alternatives

e.guardo Smart Defender is described as 'e.guardo protects your RDP, MSSQL, FTP, SMTP, EXCHANGE, OWA, LYNC, MICROSOFT DYNAMICS CRM, SHAREPOINT and many more services from Brute Force and Dictionary Attacks' and is an app in the online services category. There are more than 10 alternatives to e.guardo Smart Defender for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Self-Hosted solutions, Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2012. The best alternative is Fail2ban, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like e.guardo Smart Defender are SSHGuard, IPBanPro, Denyhosts and Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense.

e.guardo Smart Defender alternatives are mainly Firewalls but may also be Remote Desktop Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of e.guardo Smart Defender.

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e.guardo Smart Defender

Paid • Proprietary

Windows
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e.guardo protects your RDP, MSSQL, FTP, SMTP, EXCHANGE, OWA, LYNC, MICROSOFT DYNAMICS CRM, SHAREPOINT and many more...

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Fail2ban
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Free • Open Source
Firewall
Linux
18 alternatives to Fail2ban
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...

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SSHGuard
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Free • Open Source
Firewall
Mac
Linux
14 alternatives to SSHGuard
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...
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IPBanPro
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Paid • Open Source
Firewall
Remote Desktop Tool
Windows
Linux
13 alternatives to IPBanPro
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.
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SSH
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Denyhosts
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Free • Open Source
Linux
16 alternatives to Denyhosts
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.

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Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense
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Free • Open Source
Windows
13 alternatives to Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense
Out-of-the-box security for Remote Deskop, Exchange, OWA, SharePoint, CRM, generic IIS applications and many other server systems.

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Discontinued
Software has been set open-source and abandoned by the main developer. Seems a very good detector but fails to successfully stop attacks. When I have it set to block IPs after 5 failed attempts I shouldn't see multiple entries showing 300 attempts by the same IP addresses.
SpyLog
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Free • Open Source
Remote Desktop Tool
Windows
17 alternatives to SpyLog
Monitor logs from several sources and execute actions based on some rules. Can be used to protecet against brute-force attacks

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Hookem-Banem
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Free • Open Source
Firewall
Linux
Self-Hosted
8 alternatives to Hookem-Banem
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...
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Distributed
Support for IPv6
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RdpGuard
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Paid • Proprietary
Remote Desktop Tool
Windows
15 alternatives to RdpGuard
RdpGuard allows you to protect your Remote Desktop (RDP) from brute-force attacks by blocking attacker's IP address. Fail2Ban for Windows.
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RDP
AiP Defense
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Paid • Proprietary
Firewall
Remote Desktop Tool
Windows
14 alternatives to AiP Defense
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.
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Centralized Management
RDP
Support for SFTP
Reporting
Cloud based
IP Address Blacklist
Support for MS SQL Server
Support for FTP
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IPQ BDB
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Free • Open Source
Firewall
Linux
11 alternatives to IPQ BDB
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.

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