Proactive protection blocks malicious IP addresses before they reach your servers and websites. It acts upstream, on the firewall, whereas advanced protection detects and responds once the threat is inside.
In 2020, ways of living and working were turned upside down in just a few days. With the mass move to remote working, connectivity became a critical necessity, but this also opened the door to a significant increase in denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks worldwide.
It is an open-source intrusion prevention system written in Go. It analyses logs in real time to identify and block malicious IP addresses. Reported addresses are then added to the community blocklist to protect the whole community.
The engine detects a wide variety of attack scenarios and works with many common operating systems and servers. It can also act at application level, with platforms such as WordPress, Magento or any website built on PHP or Python.