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!
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!