HeatShield AlternativesFirewalls and other similar apps like HeatShield

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, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted. The best HeatShield alternative is Fail2ban, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like HeatShield are ufw, SSHGuard, Firewalld and Denyhosts.

HeatShield alternatives are mainly Firewalls but may also be Remote Desktop Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of HeatShield.

HeatShield

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HeatShield is a network firewall management service for Linux servers. A firewall configured by HeatShield prevents...

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Fail2ban
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Free • Open Source
Firewall
Linux
19 Fail2ban alternatives
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.
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ufw
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Free • Open Source
Firewall
Linux
16 ufw alternatives
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.
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1. Lightweightufw consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
SSHGuard
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Free • Open Source
Firewall
Mac
Linux
14 SSHGuard 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 is the most popular Mac alternative to HeatShield.
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SSH
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Firewalld
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Free • Open Source
Firewall
Linux
17 Firewalld alternatives
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.
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Denyhosts
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Free • Open Source
Linux
16 Denyhosts alternatives
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.
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Shorewall
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Free • Open Source
Firewall
Linux
5 Shorewall alternatives
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...
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Gateway
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Advanced Policy Firewall
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Free • Open Source
Firewall
Linux
6 Advanced Policy Firewall alternatives
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.
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Command line/bash
Application Firewall
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SpyLog
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Free • Open Source
Remote Desktop Tool
Windows
17 SpyLog alternatives
Monitor logs from several sources and execute actions based on some rules. Can be used to protecet against brute-force attacks
- - SpyLog is the most popular Windows alternative to HeatShield.
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Hookem-Banem
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Free • Open Source
Firewall
Linux
Self-Hosted
8 Hookem-Banem alternatives
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...
- - Hookem-Banem is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to HeatShield.
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Hookem-Banem Features
Distributed
Support for IPv6
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CloudPassage
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Freemium • Proprietary
Online
3 CloudPassage alternatives
CloudPassage offers cloud server security and compliance products purpose-built for elastic cloud environments.
- - CloudPassage is the most popular Web-based alternative to HeatShield.
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win2ban
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Free Personal • Proprietary
Windows
15 win2ban alternatives
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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1. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in win2ban without registration.
Brute force attack
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