CrowdSec is a security automation engine, using both local IP behavior detection & our community-driven IP reputation database.
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Fail2ban AlternativesFirewalls and other similar apps like Fail2ban
Fail2ban is described as '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' and is a Firewall in the security & privacy category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Fail2ban for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Web-based, Self-Hosted and Mac apps. The best Fail2ban alternative is CrowdSec. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try CrowdSec or SSHGuard. Other great apps like Fail2ban are HeatShield, ConfigServer Firewall, AbyssGuard and EvlWatcher.
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7 CrowdSec alternatives
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...
SSHGuard vs Fail2ban Comments
- SSHGuard is Free and Open Source
17 IPBanPro alternativesIPBan 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.
IPBanPro vs Fail2ban Comments
Free and works on Windows, easy to setup
- IPBanPro is Paid and Open Source
HeatShield is a network firewall management service for Linux servers. A firewall configured by HeatShield prevents unauthorized access to services running on your servers, such as SSH and MySQL. Using HeatShield, you can easily restrict access to these services so that only IP...
A Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall, Login/Intrusion Detection and Security application for Linux servers.
Visitor verification that blocks scrapers, bots, and attacks before they reach your site. Zero false positives. Works with any platform.
Protected against RDP-Brute forcers. It installs a service which scans the event log for anomalies every 30 seconds (by default).
Out-of-the-box security for Remote Deskop, Exchange, OWA, SharePoint, CRM, generic IIS applications and many other server systems.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Discontinued
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- Windows
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Pyruse vs Fail2ban Comments
altyvnetCustomizable. Well-defined behaviour. Modern.
P- Pyruse is Free and Open Source
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
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Easier to configure, and no errors like Fail2Ban!