brute force attack Archives

Syspeace for internal brute force protection on Windows Servers

September 25, 2013 / by Johan / brute force, cloud security, ids/ips, infosec, windowsserver / 0 comments

After installing Syspeace , the tech guys started getting notifications that their Exchange Server was trying to login to another server and it was rejected. There was no reason for this server to do so whatsoever and it had not been noticed earlier so it’s hard to say when it actually started. After disabling the […]

Am I under attack for a brute force or dictionary attack on my Windows server?

January 3, 2013 / by Johan / brute force, cloud security, ids/ips / 0 comments

Brute force attack or dictionary attack on Windows servers Dictionary attack and Brute force attack are fairly easy to find out if your Windows servers are being hit with some sort of an attack. Simply enable auditing of Logon Events in your Security Policy and look at the eventviewer and see what pops up. You […]