IPBanPro AlternativesFirewalls & Remote Desktop Tools like IPBanPro

IPBanPro is described as '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' and is a Firewall in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to IPBanPro for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Web-based, Self-Hosted and SaaS apps. The best IPBanPro alternative is CrowdSec. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try CrowdSec or Fail2ban. Other great apps like IPBanPro are reaction, Denyhosts, ConfigServer Firewall and EvlWatcher.

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

    7 CrowdSec alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. Fail2ban icon
     37 likes

    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...

    23 Fail2ban alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. SSHGuard icon
     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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  4. reaction icon
     2 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

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Linux
     
  5. Denyhosts icon
     9 likes

    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
     
  6. EvlWatcher icon
     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

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. RdpGuard icon
     6 likes

    RdpGuard allows you to protect your Remote Desktop (RDP) from brute-force attacks by blocking attacker's IP address. Fail2Ban for Windows.

    16 RdpGuard alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. IPQ BDB icon
     3 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. SpyLog icon
     1 like

    Monitor logs from several sources and execute actions based on some rules. Can be used to protect against brute-force attacks.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Defensia icon
     1 like

    Defensia is a lightweight security agent for Linux servers that detects and blocks real attacks in real time — without complex configuration.

    4 Defensia alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
     
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