Free RdpGuard Alternatives

The best free alternative to RdpGuard is Fail2ban, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to RdpGuard and nine of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to RdpGuard are SSHGuard, Denyhosts, Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense and SpyLog.

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

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
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 RdpGuard.
- - Fail2ban is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to RdpGuard.
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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 RdpGuard.
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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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Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense
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Free • Open Source
Windows
13 Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense alternatives
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 RdpGuard alternative.
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There is the chance to block an IP forever. It's completely free.
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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
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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 RdpGuard.
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Distributed
Support for IPv6
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EvlWatcher
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Free • Open Source
Remote Desktop Tool
Windows
9 EvlWatcher alternatives
Protected against RDP-Brute forcers. It installs a service which scans the event log for anomalies every 30 seconds (by default).
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IPQ BDB
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Free • Open Source
Firewall
Linux
11 IPQ BDB alternatives
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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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.
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