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CrowdSec Reviews

User Rating

4.9/5 (Based on 87 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

  • Excellent

    87.4%
  • Very Good

    10.3%
  • Average

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Alex K

September 7, 2024 Source: G2.com
Great host-based IPS
What do you like best about CrowdSec?
Easy to install and maintain. Easy to extend scenarios and blocking behavior. "Free" blocks with global blocklist based on everyone's reports.
What do you dislike about CrowdSec?
There is nothing I can say I dislike about crowdsec.
What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our website was getting lots of bad probing activity, and we occasionally saw DDOS-types attacks specific to some of our content pages. We were able to construct rules and block a lot of bad traffic before our webservers ever had to deal with it.
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Samuel L

June 13, 2023 Source: G2.com
Extremely extensive library of modules.
What do you like best about CrowdSec?
It's free and given I have two start ups in pre-seed round that is a god send. It is fantastic software that I use on all my servers. From basic ssh bouncers to more complex strategies.
What do you dislike about CrowdSec?
The UI is really nice, but things can get a bit hairy when you start deploying more complicated bouncers. It's no longer a click and deploy experience and many bouncers I use are community submitted so documentation is hit or miss.
What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is serving as a augmentation to the base firewall and also as an IDS system for all my servers. It is easy to use that dashboard to quickly get a glance at all my nodes and their security status. Fantastic software with affordable options including free.
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Silvio M

June 8, 2023 Source: G2.com
An useful instrument for cybersecurity
What do you like best about CrowdSec?
- Easy to use.
What do you dislike about CrowdSec?
- Many possibilities to integrate it, defining golang bouncer scripts.
Recommendations to others considering CrowdSec?
- Collaborative cyber threat intelligence.
What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?
- It should offer Crowdsec Web Panel, also as self-hosted service, on the server where Crowdsec is installed.
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Rei B

June 7, 2023 Source: G2.com
It's a real life-saver in terms of hosting stuff
What do you like best about CrowdSec?
What I love about it is it's open source nature. By parsing logs you can block bad actors just like you would with fail2ban - but with grok patterns which are way easier to write and implement. New parsers are easily constructed and it's really easy to keep a ton of bad traffic out of your network.
What do you dislike about CrowdSec?
A bad thing about it is that you'd have to get a premium subscription in case you want more 'signals' than you share. Mostly ssh and http scenarios do although cover most of your bases.
What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?
Crowdsec itself saves me a lot of CPU load by keeping nasty IP addresses at bay. I had a 15% load decrease on the hypervisor which may not sound like much. In my case it was around the CPU power that a complete Linux VM would need.
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Miroslav G

June 7, 2023 Source: G2.com
A simple yet brilliant idea.
What do you like best about CrowdSec?
Simple installation and usage. Supports most applications from the start.
What do you dislike about CrowdSec?
A web (cloud) console. Ability to import more IPs to block and export.
Recommendations to others considering CrowdSec?
The console has little control over the agents. I'd like it to be more usable.
What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ability yo control more aspects of the agent. Ability to customize block lists (for example ability to download from specific source)
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Joe L

June 7, 2023 Source: G2.com
Easy to install and configure crowd powered fail2ban
What do you like best about CrowdSec?
Simple to install and configure.
What do you dislike about CrowdSec?
Web gui shows useful stats and lookup for bad ip addresses.
Recommendations to others considering CrowdSec?
Running CrowdSec will help add to the community block list
What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?
The most useful blocklist like the VPN list is paywalled.
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AJ T

June 6, 2023 Source: G2.com
Great addition to secure your web applications
What do you like best about CrowdSec?
Relatively easy to set up on individual servers and provides excellent front-line protection for web applications, including WordPress. It also integrates with self-hosted software like AdGuard Home.
What do you dislike about CrowdSec?
I don't particularly appreciate that they hide their costs if you want more than two IP block lists. I've contacted them several times to get a price but have never heard back. The integration with OPNsense is lackluster and can be improved as there isn't much you can configure via the GUI.
What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?
CrowdSec blocks "bad actors" IP addresses and helps block anyone trying to brute force their way into your application or server. It provides more confidence in terms of security.
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Navaneeth K

June 6, 2023 Source: G2.com
Best Plateform for Crowd Security
What do you like best about CrowdSec?
I like the fact that I can connect all of my servers to the centralized dashboard and see what is happening with them all.
What do you dislike about CrowdSec?
I find that some of our services do not have official collections and parsers and we often have to write custom solutions for them.
What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?
We used to get a lot of SSH bruteforce attempts along with several bogus HTTP requests. We were able to mitigate them using CrowdSec.
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Joshua W

June 6, 2023 Source: G2.com
CrowdSec is user friendly tool to protect your servers and devices from common attack vectors.
What do you like best about CrowdSec?
The integration into systems is one of the best features of CrodSec. All you have to do is click "Add Instance" and follow the prompts. In most cases, it's copying a shell command to download and install the agent and bouncer to your server or device.
What do you dislike about CrowdSec?
Recommendations to others considering CrowdSec?
I also love that you can sign up for a free account to get basic coverage to hobbyist servers and devices (like me).
What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?
There is nothing that I can think of initially that I dislike about CrowdSec.
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Verified User in Individual & Family Services

June 6, 2023 Source: G2.com
Excellent idea
What do you like best about CrowdSec?
Easy to install agents and bouncers. Crowd blocklist huge advantage
What do you dislike about CrowdSec?
Consolé a bit slow. Agents only identified by hash
What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?
Block brute force and propping attempts
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