Fail2Ban is a software that helps system administrators to block unwanted incoming connections from external hosts. This is triggered when events such as too many authentication failures happen to the SSH\/D server. in this post, let’s see how we can take advantage of this functionality that Fail2Ban has by invoking it after host denial from the Porta SFTP Server. This is important because blocking the incoming host at the firewall level increases security as it will not reach the application which prevents intrusion and brute force attack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To successfully follow this post, you must have the Porta SFTP Server installed on your machine, otherwise, read the blog how to setup cross platform sftp server<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Update the current Linux System<\/p>\n\n\n\nInstalling Fail2Ban<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n