crowdsecurity/crowdsec
Open-source IDS/IPS, WAF and bot detection for Linux, Windows, Docker and Kubernetes, with a crowdsourced blocklist of malicious IPs.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 6 days ago, with 87 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #82 in the weekly ranking the week of Sep 28, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides an open-source IDS/IPS, WAF, and bot detection system with crowdsourced malicious IP blocklisting for Linux, Windows, Docker, and Kubernetes environments.
- Leverages a community-driven blocklist and modular detection rules to proactively identify and block threats across multiple infrastructure layers.
- Use for protecting web applications from automated bot attacks and malicious HTTP requests with integrated WAF capabilities.
- Use for monitoring and blocking network intrusions and suspicious activities on servers using log analysis and real-time remediation.
- Use for securing containerized and cloud-native environments like Docker and Kubernetes with adaptable detection scenarios and community threat intelligence.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
CrowdSec is an open-source and participative security solution offering crowdsourced server detection and protection against malicious IPs. Detect and block with our Security Engine, contribute to the network, and enjoy our real-time community blocklist.
CrowdSec Security Engine is an all-in-one IDS/IPS and WAF.
It detects bad behaviors by analyzing log sources and HTTP requests, and allows active remedation thanks to the Remediation Components.
Detection rules are available on our hub under MIT license.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+967 stars over 87 days across 8 snapshot days; best day +4 on Sep 4.
Forks
756+62
Open issues
301+18
Compared with peers in Security
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| soxoj/maigret | 39.9K | +332 | 60 | 87 days ago |
| Asymptote-Labs/agent-beacon | 3.4K | +315 | 75 | 1 day ago |
| crowdsecurity/crowdsec | 15.4K | — | 60 | 6 days ago |
| Category median | 39.9K | +422 | 75 | — |
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