Fail2ban AlternativesFirewalls and other similar apps like Fail2ban

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   CrowdSec

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   CrowdSec is a security automation engine, using both local IP behavior detection & our community-driven IP reputation database.

   9 CrowdSec alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free Personal
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Firewall

   Origin

   • France
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Self-Hosted

   

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   SSHGuard

    26 likes

   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

   Application type

   • Firewall

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux

   

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   SSHGuard vs Fail2ban Comments

   Positive comment by Guest · Jul 5, 2019

   Easier to configure, and no errors like Fail2Ban!

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   • SSHGuard is Free and Open SourceFail2ban is also Free and Open Source
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   HeatShield

    1 like

   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...

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Firewall

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Online

   

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   ConfigServer Firewall

    8 likes

   A Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall, Login/Intrusion Detection and Security application for Linux servers.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Firewall

   Origin

   • United Kingdom

   Platforms

   • Linux

   • United Kingdom

   

   

   

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   IPBanPro

    7 likes

   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.

   Cost / License

   • Paid
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Firewall
   • Remote Desktop

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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   IPBanPro vs Fail2ban Comments

   Positive comment by Guest · Feb 13, 2019

   Free and works on Windows, easy to setup

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   • IPBanPro is Paid and Open SourceFail2ban is Free and Open Source
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   AbyssGuard

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   Visitor verification that blocks scrapers, bots, and attacks before they reach your site. Zero false positives. Works with any platform.

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Anti-Spam

   Origin

   • International

   Platforms

   • Online

   • Global

   

   

   

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   EvlWatcher

    3 likes

   Protected against RDP-Brute forcers. It installs a service which scans the event log for anomalies every 30 seconds (by default).

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Remote Desktop

   Platforms

   • Windows

   

   

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    reaction

     3 likes

    Inspired by the honorable Fail2ban, it intend to provide a more lightweight (CPU wise) alternative, easy to configure and well documented.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Firewall

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Linux

    

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    Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense

     2 likes

    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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Origin

    • Germany
    • EU

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows

    • Germany
    • EU

    

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    win2ban

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    win2ban is a Fail2ban implementation for Windows systems. It is a packaging of Fail2ban, Python, Cygwin, Winlogbeat and many other related tools to make it a complete and ready-to-use solution for brute-force attack protection.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Origin

    • Norway

    Platforms

    • Windows

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    Pyruse

     2 likes

    Light-weight and extra-configurable peruser of systemd journal logs: ban IP, send immediate email, daily report… all based on a single JSON configuration file.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted

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    Pyruse vs Fail2ban Comments

    Positive comment by altyvnet · Feb 27, 2018

    Customizable. Well-defined behaviour. Modern.

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    • Pyruse is Free and Open SourceFail2ban is also Free and Open Source
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    AiP Defense

     5 likes

    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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application typeApplication types

    • Firewall
    • Remote Desktop

    Platforms

    • Windows

    

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