ConfigServer Firewall AlternativesFirewalls and other similar apps like ConfigServer Firewall

Alternatives list

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   Fail2ban

    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...

   21 Fail2ban alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Firewall

   Origin

   • International

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   • Fail2ban is the most popular Linux alternative to ConfigServer Firewall.

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

   • Fail2ban is Free and Open SourceConfigServer Firewall is Free and Proprietary
   • Fail2ban is Lightweight and Privacy focusedConfigServer Firewall is not according to our users
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   SSHGuard

    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

   • Firewall

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux

   

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   • SSHGuard is the most popular Mac alternative to ConfigServer Firewall.

   • SSHGuard is Free and Open SourceConfigServer Firewall is Free and Proprietary
4. 

   

   IPBanPro

    7 likes

   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.

   15 IPBanPro alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Subscription
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application types

   • Firewall
   • Remote Desktop Tool

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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   • IPBanPro is the most popular Windows alternative to ConfigServer Firewall.

   • IPBanPro is the most popular commercial alternative to ConfigServer Firewall.

   • IPBanPro is Paid and Open SourceConfigServer Firewall is Free and Proprietary
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   CacheGuard Gateway

    6 likes

   CacheGuard Gateway is a free and open-source Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution, a Web Application Firewall (WAF), and a Quality of Service (QoS) platform designed to optimize WAN traffic. To obtain a CacheGuard Gateway appliance, download CacheGuard-OS and install it on...

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Firewall

   Platforms

   • VirtualBox
   • Self-Hosted
   • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
   • Microsoft Hyper-V Server
   • Proxmox Virtual Environment

   

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   • CacheGuard Gateway is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to ConfigServer Firewall.

   • CacheGuard Gateway is Free and Open SourceConfigServer Firewall is Free and Proprietary
   • CacheGuard Gateway is Privacy focused and LightweightConfigServer Firewall is not according to our users
6. 

   

   AIDE

    4 likes

   AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a file and directory integrity checker.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   Is AIDE a good alternative to ConfigServer Firewall?

    
7. Advanced Policy Firewall

    4 likes

   Server-based firewall. Reacts to attacks with intelligent abilities to detect malicious attempts to enter and reacting by blocking the IP temporarily. Repeated hits will ban the IP completely.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Firewall

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   Is this a good alternative to ConfigServer Firewall?

    
9. iptablesbuild

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   iptablesbuild is effectively a configuration manager for iptables. It is intended to manage iptables configurations in a centralized location for multiple systems.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Firewall

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   Is iptablesbuild a good alternative to ConfigServer Firewall?

    
10. ferm

     1 like

    ferm is a tool to maintain complex firewalls, without having the trouble to rewrite the complex rules over and over again. ferm allows the entire firewall rule set to be stored in a separate file, and to be loaded with one command.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Firewall

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

    Is ferm a good alternative to ConfigServer Firewall?