Most Syspeace users have the software in place to protect them mainly from external threats from the Internet such as hacking attempts via brute-force attacks and dictionary attacks. Quite often, the internal network ranges are excluded in the local whitelist by sysadmins, thus never blocking anything from those IP addresses or network ranges. Some of […]
Today we had an interesting support question. Someone is trying to brute force a customer using the same account name but from a lot of different IP addresses and they only try once or twice from each IP address thus not triggering Syspeace to block the IP address based on the default rule. The suggestion […]
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Brute force attack or dictionary attack on Windows servers It’s relatively easy to determine if your Windows servers are hit with Dictionary or Brute force attacks. Simply enable auditing of Logon Events in your Security Policy and look at the event viewer and see what pops up. You will then know if your server is hit by brute […]
Preparing for longer holidays and getting the #datacenter ready.
This is actually just a post based on some of the search terms that have led to people finding this blog. So, How to setup Syspeace for RDP …Actually, it might take you longer to read this blog entry than actually set it up. 1. Go to the Syspeace website and download the software 2. […]
The more we move our data to various Cloud services and to outsourcing companies, we also need to take the consequences into account what that means from a security perspective. Prior to a move to Cloud services, a company could keep track of how communications are secured, they could set their own account lockout policies […]
Syspeace is an automated brute force prevention / dictionary attack software that protects Microsoft Windows Servers by monitoring the Windows Authentication mechanisms for unsuccessful logins. This means you get immediate protection for Microsoft Terminal Server, Citrix, Exchange OWA Webmail, SharePoint, CRM, Terminal Server RDWeb and more. For instance, there is also built-in protection for Exchange connectors. Each attack […]
About brute force protection and Cloud Security and VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and outsourcing or hosted environments If you are a Cloud Service provider or an outsourcing company and giving your customers access to various Windows services such as file access, Exchange, Exchange OWA, Sharepoint, Citrix, RemoteApp and Terminal Server services or even VPS (Virtual […]
This is just a geeky, cost-calculating experiment really. Nothing scientific or anything. Just a fun thought on how easy it is to calculate the ROI for the low cost of Syspeace licenses. Yesterday evening we had a really interesting meeting with a future reseller so we thought we’d look at the actual numbers of blocked […]