e.guardo Smart Defender Alternatives

e.guardo Smart Defender is described as 'Guards internet-facing systems from brute force, DDoS, and spoofing using system log analysis, dynamic security rules, and global IP blacklists for multiple services' and is an app in the online services category. There are more than 10 alternatives to e.guardo Smart Defender for Windows, Linux, Self-Hosted and Mac. The best e.guardo Smart Defender alternative is Fail2ban, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like e.guardo Smart Defender are SSHGuard, IPBanPro, Denyhosts and RdpGuard.

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  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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  3. IPBanPro icon
     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

    • Paid
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. RdpGuard icon
     6 likes

    RdpGuard allows you to protect your Remote Desktop (RDP) from brute-force attacks by blocking attacker's IP address. Fail2Ban for Windows.

    15 RdpGuard alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. SpyLog icon
     1 like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. IPQ BDB icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  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...

    Cost / License

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    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. AiP Defense icon
     5 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Syspeace icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. mobileFX Spartan RDP Guard is an intrusion detection system (IDS) and host-based intrusion prevention system (HIPS) implemented as a Windows 64-bit or 32-bit Service with location-based attack reporting and instant notifications.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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