Fail2ban

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Tool and Usage

Project details

License
GPLv2
Programming language
Python
Author
Cyril Jaquier
Latest release
1.1.0
Latest release date

Project health

89
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Usage and audience

Fail2ban is commonly used for network traffic filtering or security monitoring. Target users for this tool are general public and system administrators.

Features

  • Command line interface

Tool review and remarks

The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:

Strengths

  • + More than 2000 GitHub stars
  • + The source code of this software is available

Author and Maintainers

Fail2ban is under development by Cyril Jaquier.

Contributors

Installation

Supported operating systems

Fail2ban is known to work on Linux.

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Categories

This tool is categorized as a Linux attack detection tool and Linux security defense tool.