Thwart SSH dictionary based attacks and brute force attacks.

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• lynis

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• pfSense

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• Fail2Ban

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• OSSEC

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• Suricata

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• Kippo

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• Blackbox

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• Glastopf

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• fwknop

  4.4 4.4 L3 Denyhosts VS fwknop

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• Pen Test Tools

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• autoVPN

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• SpamAssassin

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