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Denyhosts VS Pyruse

Compare Denyhosts VS Pyruse and see what are their differences

Denyhosts logo Denyhosts

The idea of denying access to SSH servers is nothing new and I was inspired by many other scripts...

Pyruse logo Pyruse

pyruse - Lightweight replacement to both epylog and fail2ban
  • Denyhosts Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-07-27
  • Pyruse Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-01-25

Denyhosts videos

Linux Sys Admin II Week 4: Hardening SSH with Denyhosts (Part 1)

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  • Review - SSH Series - Part 03 - Denyhosts

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Denyhosts and Pyruse)
Cyber Security
81 81%
19% 19
Monitoring Tools
81 81%
19% 19
Web Application Security
81 81%
19% 19
Security
50 50%
50% 50

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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Denyhosts and Pyruse, you can also consider the following products

Fail2ban - Intrusion prevention framework

SSHGuard - SSHGuard monitors services through their logging activity.

tallow - Tallow blocks hosts that attempt to bruteforce SSH using the journald API.

RdpGuard - RdpGuard allows you to protect your Remote Desktop (RDP), POP3, FTP, SMTP, IMAP, MSSQL, MySQL, VoIP/SIP from brute-force attacks by blocking attacker's IP address. Fail2Ban for Windows.

IPBan - Block hacking attempts on RDP, SSH, SMTP and much more

SpyLog - Monitor logs from several sources and execute actions based on some rules.