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Denyhosts VS SSHGuard

Compare Denyhosts VS SSHGuard and see what are their differences

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Denyhosts logo Denyhosts

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

SSHGuard logo SSHGuard

SSHGuard monitors services through their logging activity.
  • Denyhosts Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-07-27
  • SSHGuard Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-03-06

Denyhosts

Categories
  • Monitoring Tools
  • Cyber Security
  • Web Application Security
  • Security
Website sourceforge.net
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SSHGuard

Categories
  • Monitoring Tools
  • Cyber Security
  • Web Application Security
  • Security
Website sshguard.net
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Denyhosts videos

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

More videos:

  • Review - SSH Series - Part 03 - Denyhosts

SSHGuard videos

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How To install SSHGuard On Centos 7.3

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Denyhosts and SSHGuard)

Denyhosts

SSHGuard

Cyber Security
45 45%
Cyber Security
55% 55
Monitoring Tools
45 45%
Monitoring Tools
55% 55
Web Application Security
46 46%
Web Application Security
54% 54
Security
43 43%
Security
57% 57

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, SSHGuard seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 1 time since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Denyhosts mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Denyhosts yet. Tracking of Denyhosts recommendations started around Mar 2021.

SSHGuard mentions (1)

  • Whats with all the hacking/attacks?
    There are now better defensive tools (I use https://sshguard.net/); not that there are any accounts on this system that are vulnerable, but it does keep the relevant logfile from growing to astronomical size. Source: about 3 years ago

What are some alternatives?

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

Fail2ban - Intrusion prevention framework

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

Anti DDoS Guardian - Stops RDP Brute force attack as well as DDoS agaist IIS, FTP, SMTP, and several more.

Syspeace - Syspeace is a Intrusion Detection and Prevention System prevents brute force attacks on Microsoft Windows Servers. Syspeace is made for you, with the safety of every type of business in mind.

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

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