Articles from CrowdSec

Check how to combine Suricata and CrowdSec for a better security of your assets.

We were so lucky to get an interview with early CrowdSec supporter and contributor of the CrowdSec Traefik bouncer Fabien Bonalair. The Traefik bouncer empowers existing Traefik Proxy users to mitigate security threats from attackers directly in Traefik. Obviously, this is terrific – especially in a K8s environment where blocking traffic using a host firewall […]

In this article, I’ll describe how to install the CrowdSec agent and the firewall bouncer directly on Raspberry Pi OS and convert it into a sort of honeypot using endlessh (an ssh tarpit) and a web server which only purpose is for CrowdSec to detect attacks in its logfiles. Raspberry Pi is a perfect device […]

CrowdSec joins the Google for Startups Growth Academy: Cybersecurity and will participate in the three-month program to gain skills to grow to help combat cybercrime through collaborative threat intelligence and open security.

Bennet also works at Esyoil where they are actively using CrowdSec in their production environment as he will explain in the interview. Actually, Bennet first reached out to us with suggestions for improvement but then ended up liking CrowdSec so much that he enrolled as an ambassador. We’re very happy about that and for everything, […]

CrowdSec 1.5 is the biggest version since 1.0 with plenty of new features, capabilities, and more! Take a look at what we have in store and be one of the first to test it out before we officially launch it this summer.

It’s finally happening. We’re opening our own Discord server as a replacement for our Gitter. We’ll be keeping our Discourse. As it turns out those two – Discord and Discourse (or Disco2 as we call them internally) – supplement each other really well. Also, the new Discord fills an important role for us – or […]

Fail2Ban is great! While it’s not wrong that CrowdSec can be used as an alternative to Fail2Ban for ssh brute force protection, it’s not the entire truth either. Don’t get me wrong; Fail2Ban is a fantastic tool to enable. Without Fail2Ban there wouldn’t have been any CrowdSec either. The majority of CrowdSec’s founders used to […]

The biggest release since 1.0, CrowdSec Security Engine 1.5 brings you new features, major enhancements, and more control of your security management. Discover all that is new in 1.5 and how to get started in this article.

OPNsense is an open-source FreeBSD firewall and routing platform with a rich set of security features and IDS/IPS software built into it that works on a network level. We see CrowdSec as a perfect supplement to OPNsense. CrowdSec is capable of protecting any internet-exposed service either running on the firewall itself or on the network […]