RdpGuard Alternatives

RdpGuard is described as 'allows you to protect your Remote Desktop (RDP) from brute-force attacks by blocking attacker's IP address. Fail2Ban for Windows' and is a Remote Desktop tool in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to RdpGuard for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Online / Web-based, Self-Hosted solutions and Windows Server 2019. The best alternative is Fail2ban, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like RdpGuard are Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense, IPBanPro, SSHGuard and Denyhosts.

RdpGuard 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 RdpGuard.

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RdpGuard

Paid • Proprietary
Remote Desktop Tool
Windows

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

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Fail2ban
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Free • Open Source
Firewall
Linux
18 alternatives to Fail2ban
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...

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Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense
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Free • Open Source
Windows
13 alternatives to Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense
Out-of-the-box security for Remote Deskop, Exchange, OWA, SharePoint, CRM, generic IIS applications and many other server systems.

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Discontinued
Software has been set open-source and abandoned by the main developer. Seems a very good detector but fails to successfully stop attacks. When I have it set to block IPs after 5 failed attempts I shouldn't see multiple entries showing 300 attempts by the same IP addresses.

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Almost everyone thinks Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense is a great alternative to RdpGuard.
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There is the chance to block an IP forever. It's completely free.
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IPBanPro
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Paid • Open Source
Firewall
Remote Desktop Tool
Windows
Linux
13 alternatives to IPBanPro
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.
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SSH
SMTP Support
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Most users think IPBanPro is a great alternative to RdpGuard.
SSHGuard
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Free • Open Source
Firewall
Mac
Linux
14 alternatives to SSHGuard
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...
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SSH
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Denyhosts
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Free • Open Source
Linux
16 alternatives to Denyhosts
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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SpyLog
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Free • Open Source
Remote Desktop Tool
Windows
17 alternatives to SpyLog
Monitor logs from several sources and execute actions based on some rules. Can be used to protecet against brute-force attacks

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Hookem-Banem
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Free • Open Source
Firewall
Linux
Self-Hosted
8 alternatives to Hookem-Banem
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...
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Distributed
Support for IPv6
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Syspeace
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
8 alternatives to Syspeace
Syspeace automatically blocks brute force attacks primarily for Windows Servers with good information in the admin mils telling you DNS names, country of origin and username used for the attack.
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Perpertual licence
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AiP Defense
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Paid • Proprietary
Firewall
Remote Desktop Tool
Windows
14 alternatives to AiP Defense
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.
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AiP Defense Features
Centralized Management
RDP
Support for SFTP
Reporting
Cloud based
IP Address Blacklist
Support for MS SQL Server
Support for FTP
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IPQ BDB
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Free • Open Source
Firewall
Linux
11 alternatives to IPQ BDB
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.

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