SSHGuard

SSHGuard monitors services through their logging activity. It reacts to messages about dangerous activity by blocking the source address with the local firewall.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux

Fail2ban

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.

Free Open Source Linux

Denyhosts

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.

Free Open Source Linux

RdpGuard

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

Commercial Windows

IPQ BDB

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...

Free Open Source Linux

EvlWatcher

Protected against RDP-Brute forcers. It installs a service which scans the event log for anomalies every 30 seconds (by default). When the service finds out that...

Free Windows

e.guardo Smart Defender

e.guardo protects your RDP, MSSQL, FTP, SMTP, EXCHANGE, OWA, LYNC, MICROSOFT DYNAMICS CRM, SHAREPOINT and many more services from Brute Force and Dictionary Attacks

Commercial Windows Web

SpyLog

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

Free Open Source Windows

Cyberarms Intrusion Detection and Defense System (IDDS)

Windows Server brute force protection for Remote Desktop (including NLA), FTP, SMTP, and much more.

Free Open Source Windows