Inspired on Crowdsec firewall bouncer, and also with the intention of learning some Rust, I’ve created Bulwark, a small program to run in a OpenWrt router (or any Linux machine) to ban IPs of attacks detected by my servers.
[Read More]From Fail2ban to Reaction
Fail2ban has been an important security tool I’ve been using in my servers for many years. However sometimes is difficult to configure, lacks certain features and can consume too many resources.
Recently I’ve switched to Reaction, a new tool with the same philosophy: monitor logs and execute some actions based on log matches. Reaction is written in Rust, so it’s fast and resource efficient.
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