Snort VS Denyhosts

Compare Snort vs Denyhosts and see what are their differences.

Snort

Snort++ (by snort3)

Denyhosts

Automated host blocking from SSH brute force attacks (by denyhosts)
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Snort Denyhosts
2 2
2,222 649
3.3% 0.9%
9.4 5.7
4 days ago 3 months ago
C++ Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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Snort

Posts with mentions or reviews of Snort. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Snort yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Denyhosts

Posts with mentions or reviews of Denyhosts. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-02.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Snort and Denyhosts you can also consider the following projects:

Wazuh - Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.

Fail2Ban - Daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors

crowdsec - CrowdSec - the open-source and participative security solution offering crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs and access to the most advanced real-world CTI.

OSSEC - OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System that performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response.

Suricata - Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine developed by the OISF and the Suricata community.

OSQuery - SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.

lynis - Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and system hardening. Agentless, and installation optional.

pfSense - Main repository for pfSense