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CrowdSec is the most popular Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to Fail2ban.
CrowdSec is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Fail2ban.
- CrowdSec is Free Personal and Open Source
Open Source Fail2ban AlternativesFirewalls and other similar apps like Fail2ban
The best open source alternative to Fail2ban is CrowdSec. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try CrowdSec or SSHGuard. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Fail2ban and 14 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Fail2ban are EvlWatcher, Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense, Pyruse and reaction.
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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...
Comments about SSHGuard as an Alternative to Fail2ban
Most users think SSHGuard is a great Fail2ban alternative.
SSHGuard is the most popular Mac alternative to Fail2ban.
- SSHGuard is Free and Open Source
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.
Comments about IPBanPro as an Alternative to Fail2ban
Free and works on Windows, easy to setup
Most users think IPBanPro is a great Fail2ban alternative.
IPBanPro is the most popular Windows alternative to Fail2ban.
IPBanPro is the most popular commercial alternative to Fail2ban.
- IPBanPro is Paid and Open Source
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
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
Comments about Pyruse as an Alternative to Fail2ban
altyvnetCustomizable. Well-defined behaviour. Modern.
- 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
wail2ban is a windows port of the basic functionality of fail2ban, and combining elements of ts_block.
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.
Comments about IPQ BDB as an Alternative to Fail2ban
Lightweight code and compact storage
This App blocks only unauthorized access to the Berkeley DB
- IPQ BDB is Free and Open Source
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Easier to configure, and no errors like Fail2Ban!