FINALLY! Protection from FTP and RDP Brute force on IIS 7/7.5

[CavalloComm]

After searching high and low.. I finally found the best product to take care of brute force attacks in Windows 2008 (IIS 7/7.5) without waiting for Windows 2012 on my Plesk Windows hosting servers. It’s called CyberArms which can be found at /http://ww.cyberarms.net

 

They charge $199.99 per server, but you own the software. It works with your firewall and automatically blocks for invalid login attempts that you can configure. It protects the following:

 

Outlook Web

Microsoft FTP

SQL Server Login attempts

Remote Desktop attempts.

 

What I can tell you in evaluating the software is that the company is a Microsoft Partner, so it has been well tested. They are also going to be releasing additional modules for SMTP in the future. It uses hardly any CPU at all. On my first hosting server, I already have over 200 IP’s blocked in a week from attempts to FTP brute force in. I also like that fact that it doesn’t have tons of overhead with fancy maps, and un-needed “junk”, since in my mind – I don’t need all that on the server, I just needed something that just works…. Nothing fancy. Check them out!

[malfunction]

Good tip, thanks for posting. Since Plesk dumped support for Gene6 FTP server, which could handle some of this, there has been a need for something of this nature.

[CavalloComm]

Good tip, thanks for posting. Since Plesk dumped support for Gene6 FTP server, which could handle some of this, there has been a need for something of this nature.

 

I think it works great... and they have SQL and RDP - it was tough finding something that didn't have to be scripted and require 1/2 days work to install. I know it's $199, but to me for a 1 time license for a server.. it's an insurance policy because it's saving on bandwidth and resources..