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 Windows, Linux, Self-Hosted solutions and Mac. The best alternative is Fail2ban, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like e.guardo Smart Defender are SSHGuard (Free, Open Source), Denyhosts (Free, Open Source), Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense System (IDDS) (Free, Open Source) and RdpGuard (Paid).
- 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. View 18 alternatives to Fail2ban
- SSHGuard monitors services through their logging activity. It reacts to messages about dangerous activity by blocking the source address with the local firewall. View 14 alternatives to SSHGuard
- 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. View 15 alternatives to Denyhosts
- Windows Server brute force protection for Remote Desktop (including NLA), FTP, SMTP, and much more. View 13 alternatives to Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense System (IDDS)
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.
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- RdpGuard allows you to protect your Remote Desktop (RDP) from brute-force attacks by blocking attacker's IP address. Fail2Ban for Windows. View 15 alternatives to RdpGuard
- Centralised log monitoring which distributes block requests of repeated failure attempts across multiple servers. View 7 alternatives to Hookem-Banem
- A FREE and open source application that allows auto banning ip addresses from failed login attempts. View 12 alternatives to IPBanNo screenshots yet
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- Your Microsoft Windows servers are probably under constant attack and you may not even know it! View 14 alternatives to AiP DefenseNo screenshots yet
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
- IPQ BDB filtering is done by a user space netfilter daemon that issues verdicts after looking up the IP address in a Berkeley DB. View 10 alternatives to IPQ BDB
- Syspeace is an Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (HIDPS) for brute force attacks on Windows Servers. View 8 alternatives to Syspeace