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.Fail2ban
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo18 alternatives to Fail2ban- Free • Open Source
- Firewall
- Linux
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...
Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo13 alternatives to Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense- Free • Open Source
- Windows
Out-of-the-box security for Remote Deskop, Exchange, OWA, SharePoint, CRM, generic IIS applications and many other server systems.
DiscontinuedSoftware 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.
Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense vs RdpGuard opinions
There is the chance to block an IP forever. It's completely free.
-2IPBanPro
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo- Paid • Open Source
- Firewall
- Remote Desktop Tool
13 alternatives to IPBanPro- Windows
- Linux
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.
IPBanPro Features
IPBanPro vs RdpGuard opinions
SSHGuard
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Firewall
14 alternatives to SSHGuard- Mac
- Linux
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 Features
Denyhosts
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo16 alternatives to Denyhosts- Free • Open Source
- Linux
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.
SpyLog
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo17 alternatives to SpyLog- Free • Open Source
- Remote Desktop Tool
- Windows
Monitor logs from several sources and execute actions based on some rules. Can be used to protecet against brute-force attacks
Hookem-Banem
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Firewall
8 alternatives to Hookem-Banem- Linux
- Self-Hosted
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 Features
Syspeace
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo8 alternatives to Syspeace- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
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.
Syspeace Features
AiP Defense
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo- Paid • Proprietary
- Firewall
- Remote Desktop Tool
14 alternatives to AiP Defense- Windows
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.
AiP Defense Features
IPQ BDB
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo11 alternatives to IPQ BDB- Free • Open Source
- Firewall
- Linux
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.