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, Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense, Denyhosts and SpyLog.

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RdpGuard alternatives are mainly Firewalls but may also be Remote Desktop Tools or Web Log Analyzers.  Filter by these or use the filter bar below if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of RdpGuard.
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RdpGuard allows you to protect your Remote Desktop (RDP) from brute-force attacks by blocking attacker's IP address. Fail2Ban for Windows.

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RdpGuard alternatives page was last updated Mar 17, 2020
  1. Fail2ban icon
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    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...

    21 Fail2ban alternatives
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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Linux
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    • Fail2ban is the most popular Linux alternative to RdpGuard.

    • Fail2ban is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to RdpGuard.

    • Fail2ban is Free and Open SourceRdpGuard is Paid and Proprietary
  2. 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...

    17 SSHGuard alternatives

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux

    SSHGuard Features

    1.  SSH
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    • SSHGuard is the most popular Mac alternative to RdpGuard.

    • SSHGuard is Free and Open SourceRdpGuard is Paid and Proprietary
  3. Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense icon
     2 likes

    Out-of-the-box security for Remote Deskop, Exchange, OWA, SharePoint, CRM, generic IIS applications and many other server systems.

    13 Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense alternatives
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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Windows
    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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    Comments about Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense as an Alternative to RdpGuard
     
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    There is the chance to block an IP forever. It's completely free.

    Positive commentApr 24, 2017
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    • Almost everyone thinks Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense is a great RdpGuard alternative.

    • Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense is Free and Open SourceRdpGuard is Paid and Proprietary
  4. 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.

    17 Denyhosts alternatives

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Linux
    Denyhosts iconRdpGuard Icon

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  5.  1 like

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

    18 SpyLog alternatives

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Windows
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  6. 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.

    11 IPQ BDB alternatives

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Linux
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  7. 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).

    9 EvlWatcher alternatives
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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Windows
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  8.  2 likes

    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...

    8 Hookem-Banem alternatives

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted

    Hookem-Banem Features

    1.  Distributed
    2.  Support for IPv6
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    • Hookem-Banem is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to RdpGuard.

    • Hookem-Banem is Free and Open SourceRdpGuard is Paid and Proprietary
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    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.

    15 win2ban alternatives

    License model

    • Free PersonalProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    win2ban Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Brute force attack
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