HeatShield is described as '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' and is a Firewall in the security & privacy category. There are more than 10 alternatives to HeatShield for Linux, Windows, Self-Hosted, Mac and Web-based. The best HeatShield alternative is Fail2ban, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like HeatShield are ufw, SSHGuard, Firewalld and reaction.
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...
Fail2ban is the most popular Linux alternative to HeatShield.
Fail2ban is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to HeatShield.
Ufw stands for Uncomplicated Firewall, and is program for managing a netfilter firewall. It provides a command line interface and aims to be uncomplicated and easy to use.
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 is the most popular Mac alternative to HeatShield.
Firewalld provides a dynamically managed firewall with support for network/firewall zones that define the trust level of network connections or interfaces. It has support for IPv4, IPv6 firewall settings, ethernet bridges and IP sets.
reaction is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to HeatShield.
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.
The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as “Shorewall”, is high-level tool for configuring Netfilter. You describe your firewall/gateway requirements using entries in a set of configuration files. Shorewall reads those configuration files and with the help of the iptables...
Server-based firewall. Reacts to attacks with intelligent abilities to detect malicious attempts to enter and reacting by blocking the IP temporarily. Repeated hits will ban the IP completely.
Monitor logs from several sources and execute actions based on some rules. Can be used to protect against brute-force attacks.
SpyLog is the most popular Windows alternative to HeatShield.
CloudPassage offers cloud server security and compliance products purpose-built for elastic cloud environments.
CloudPassage is the most popular Web-based alternative to HeatShield.
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...
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.
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