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 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 IPBanPro, SSHGuard, Denyhosts and SpyLog.

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

e.guardo Smart Defender

Paid • Proprietary

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

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e.guardo Smart Defender alternatives page was last updated May 17, 2021

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...
20 Fail2ban alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Firewall
Platforms
- Linux
Fail2ban VS e.guardo Smart Defender
Is Fail2ban a good alternative to e.guardo Smart Defender?
- 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

IPBanPro
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.
14 IPBanPro alternatives
License model
- Paid • Open Source
Application types
- Firewall
- Remote Desktop Tool
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
IPBanPro Features
SSH
SMTP Support
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IPBanPro VS e.guardo Smart Defender
Is IPBanPro a good alternative to e.guardo Smart Defender?
- 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

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...
15 SSHGuard alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Firewall
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
SSHGuard Features
SSH
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SSHGuard VS e.guardo Smart Defender
Is SSHGuard a good alternative to e.guardo Smart Defender?
- 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

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.
17 Denyhosts alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
Denyhosts VS e.guardo Smart Defender
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SpyLog
Monitor logs from several sources and execute actions based on some rules. Can be used to protecet against brute-force attacks.
18 SpyLog alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Remote Desktop Tool
Platforms
- Windows
SpyLog VS e.guardo Smart Defender
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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.
13 Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
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.

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RdpGuard
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
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application type
- Remote Desktop Tool
Platforms
- Windows
RdpGuard Features
RDP
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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...
8 Hookem-Banem alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Firewall
Platforms
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
Hookem-Banem Features
Distributed
Support for IPv6
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Hookem-Banem VS e.guardo Smart Defender
Is Hookem-Banem a good alternative to e.guardo Smart Defender?
- 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

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.
11 IPQ BDB alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Firewall
Platforms
- Linux
IPQ BDB VS e.guardo Smart Defender
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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.
14 AiP Defense alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
- Firewall
- Remote Desktop Tool
Platforms
- Windows
AiP Defense Features
1. Centralized Management
2. RDP
3. Support for SFTP
4. Reporting
5. Cloud based
6. IP Address Blacklist
7. Support for MS SQL Server
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Syspeace
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.
8 Syspeace alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
Syspeace Features
Perpertual licence
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mobileFX Spartan RDP Guard
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.
15 mobileFX Spartan RDP Guard alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application type
- Firewall
Platforms
- Windows
mobileFX Spartan RDP Guard Features
RDP
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