CrowdSec IPS is a free intrusion protection system that will allow you to monitor your network easily. Read to find out more.

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What is CrowdSec IPS

CrowdSec is an open-source, free, collaborative Intrusion Prevention System. In other words, it analyzes behaviors, shares signals across the community, and also responds to attacks. Furthermore, CrowdSec is responsible for continuously monitoring the network for any malicious activity and taking action against it as well.

How to install CrowdSec IPS

According to our Support Techs, we can install CrowdSec either through the package system of our OS or from the source.

From package :

• Debian:

  curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/crowdsec/crowdsec/script.deb.sh | sudo bash
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install crowdsec
• Rhel/Centos/Amazon Linux

  curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/crowdsec/crowdsec/script.rpm.sh | sudo bash
  sudo yum install crowdsec
• FreeBSD

  sudo pkg update
  sudo pkg install crowdsec

From source:

wget https://github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec/releases/latest/download/crowdsec-release.tgz
tar xzvf crowdsec-release.tgz
cd crowdsec-v* && sudo ./wizard.sh -i

Main features of CrowdSec

• Automated initial configuration offering functional out-of-the-box setup.
• Does not require fine-tuning since baseline detection is very effective.
• Offers an easy-to-use interface to view data.
• Creates cold logs for tests, and forensics, chasing false positives and false negatives.
• It does not require additional bouncers to carry out decisions of CrowdSec.

The repository consists of code for crowdsec and cscli, the two main components of CrowdSec.

Furthermore, CrowdSec helps users protect one another by sharing the threat. In fact, it works well with modern infrastructure, allowing users to analyze logs from different sources in a single place. Moreover, this allows us to block threats at the applicative, system as well as infrastructural levels of the stack.

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Conclusion

To sum up, our skilled Support Engineers at Bobcares demonstrated how to install CrowdSec IPS.