--- title: CrowdSec Reviews meta_title: 'CrowdSec Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 88 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how CrowdSec works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.7 review_count: 88 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: Network Security url: https://www.g2.com/categories/network-security --- # CrowdSec Reviews **Vendor:** CrowdSec **Category:** [Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS)](https://www.g2.com/categories/intrusion-detection-and-prevention-systems-idps) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 88 ## About CrowdSec CrowdSec is an open-source security stack that detects aggressive behaviors and prevents them from accessing your systems. Its user-friendly design and ease of integration into your current security infrastructure offer a low technical entry barrier and a high-security gain. Once an unwanted behavior is detected, it is automatically blocked. The aggressive IP, scenario triggered and the timestamp is sent for curation, to avoid poisoning & false positives. If verified, this IP is then redistributed to all CrowdSec users running the same scenario. By sharing the threat they faced, all users are protecting each other. ## CrowdSec Reviews ### 1. Excellent and seamless security solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Victor D. | Investment Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** The open-source core makes it very transparent and secure: it does not entirely anchor you. Modern and way more effective alternative to Fail2ban. **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** Not much to be said: still may be missing a few plug-ins for some CMS, but it already covers most use cases! **Recommendations to others considering CrowdSec:** Easy to try, difficult to quit :) Just ask the community of users + the support team **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can quickly secure our web apps and services thanks to the power of the crowd :) It helps us prevent data breaches, DDOS,... We highly recommend it to our partners to secure their assets ### 2. Fail2Ban 2.0, but much better **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** CrowdSec is very powerful when you have only one machine to protect. But if you have to preserve much more devices in your infrastructure, the best feature is the ability to centralize the decisions, and thus, CrowdSec does native mitigation of the banned IPs. In addition, the scenarios system is easy to learn and strong. **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** Nothing, really. This software does its work very well! **Recommendations to others considering CrowdSec:** Do not hesitate to interact with the developers, they are very reactive on Gitter. **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** CrowdSec was helpful against DoS and brute force attacks. The traffic was instantly impacted, just with half of our machines equipped. ### 3. Crowdsec is a real good solution to secure your services **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** JC D. | CIO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** It looks like Fail2ban on steroids, and is indeed a very interesting solution as it allows you to benefit from a wide list of "bad clients" to ensure your service is available to your real clients! Easy to install and configure, it can be running in just minutes and gives you a grea insight on what is happening. **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** Nothing seems to be a problem here! It just works! **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** Security is a real problem these days, and this solution protects you from different attacks and works on a global level to make sure you know the bad guys. Our services are better protected and more available while not blocked by bogus connections. ### 4. Highly Innovative **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gilles B. | Gerant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** They have come with a highly innovative offering that has no comparable on the market. This idea of sharing the thread data through a web of users is so elegant that I do not understand that it not largely deployed. IT may well be a megatrend in the sense that cybersecurity could use its architecture in the future. **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** Hard to say since I haven't used all the tools made available by this product yet. **Recommendations to others considering CrowdSec:** many contents and supports on different platforms are available **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** It accelerates the decision-making in case of cyberthreat **Official Response from Jean Devaux:** > Thanks for your feedback Gilles. Now that the tool is stable, up and running, let's make sure to have it largely deployed! ### 5. Polished Open Source option **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel G. | Director IT, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** For an open-source software solution, this was easy to get started with **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** The community idea is excellent but I think more involvement and partners are needed **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** Needed an opensource solution that wasn't going to take forever to master that could provide a decent amount of features without breaking the bank **Official Response from Jean Devaux:** > Hi Daniel. Thanks for your comment. We are building the partner network as we speak, more info soon on that matter. ### 6. Crowsec is an easy to use Intrusion Detection System IDS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** I love that it's developed in GOLANG and makes this firewall fast and efficient. I love that language, But the more important is that the firewall works as an effective layer of protection. It's easy to use, and the dashboard is friendly and clean. **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** I can't find any part of this product that I don't like Please note that I'm a new user. We will see when the time comes **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application protection with applications running in containers, The more important part is the Observability that this firewall offers to me **Official Response from Jean Devaux:** > Hi there. Glad that you find our observability features useful. Let us know how everything goes and don't hesitate to reach out should you have any questions, we are always happy to help. You can find us on our Gitter channel. ### 7. An innovative approach of security **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cristian N. | Solution Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** I particularly appreciate Open Source (no hidden gimmicks) and the collaborative approach that makes it a quite strong yet cost-effective solution. One can implement the system without deep knowledge of security and attacks, given the already available scenarios and bouncers. But the most interesting I find their community IP blacklist, blocking the attacks before it even happens on your system, nice! **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** Still evaluating but found nothing tricky yet **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** I manage a few websites, mainly apache / php framework. Crowdsec is "buying me some tranquility" as I cannot spend a lot of time mitigating threats. Now, Crowdsec is doing it for me ... ### 8. An Essential Tool any Linux Ecosystem **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dyllan P. | Managing Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** The herd immunity and sharing of information regarding "bad-agents" between customers is a first in this area, and it's highly effective. **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** Nothing to dislike except perhaps that more people should be using it. **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** We spend less time monitoring and configuring server security with outdated tools, which means our ecosystem is more secure and we have time to focus our attention on other areas of our business. **Official Response from Jean Devaux:** > Hi Dyllan, Thank you for using CrowdSec. And you are right, more people should use it :) ### 9. Brand new way of intrusion detecting **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Olivier L. | SysOp, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** I think the distributed architecture is the most interesting feature **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** There's nothing in this product I diskied **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Crowdsec we managed to handle intrusion detection on a float of reverse proxies ### 10. The future of cybersecurity **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arnaud B. | Co-Founder and President at TBD Group, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** It is open-source so the product will always be the sum of great minds' work + no backdoors It is free! The decoupled approach (detect here, remedy there) **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** I don't have any problem with the tool. It is seamless. **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** It protects all my sites and I know it always will. It helps me gain a lot of time since I no longer need to worry about security. ### 11. CrowdSec is Great! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sandra V. | Director, Finance & Corporate Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** Easy to use, flexible, customizable all great aspects **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** There is nothing I do not like; everything seems great **Recommendations to others considering CrowdSec:** everything is great, we really enjoy it so far **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** reaching customers for cyber training has been great ### 12. Configure and secure! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark H. | Infrastructure Team Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** Ease of use UI is easy. Love the ability to apply policies easily. **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** Some of the features aren't fully fleshed out. **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are protecting our clients from Ransomware and other malware threats that they are facing. ### 13. The Next Generation of collaborative EDR **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hamza K. | CTO, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** collaborative, Simple to deploy, effiscient. **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** nothing special, i think the best is yet to come. **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** DDoS attacks, bots attack, and some APTs attackers. A big gain of time, energy and very effiscient regarding blocking attaks (ddos ,bots and even apts) ### 14. Fantastic Product, Fantastic Support ... Keep it up guys **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Indranil K. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** Support given by the Team and specialy by Thibault "bui" Koechlin @buixor **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** documentation ... need to improve on this aspect **Recommendations to others considering CrowdSec:** A fantastic product need for every company to have **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** The major problem every security professional has is to secure his servers ... this is solved in this product **Official Response from Jean Devaux:** > Hi Indranil, Thank you very much for your support. We have been working on documentation improvement day in day out, and we will continue to do for the ease of the CrowdSec community. We appreciate your feedback! ### 15. Modern take on blocking bad actors **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** Crowdsec makes it easy to block rogue IP addresses automatically based on a crowd-sourced database verus just blocking IPs that you detect like other solutions such as fail2ban. The advantage is the database is refreshed on current known rogue actor IPs. Crowdsec is easy to configure, and in my situation, it was easy to drop into my current setup. **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** I haven't ran into an downsides to using Crowdsec. **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** Crowdsec is currently being used to block bad actors from accessing my personal file sync server and VPN service. I've also recommended to clients that I work with to use Crowdsec for internet-facing applications. ### 16. A game changer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manu S. | Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** Very fast to protect our servers. It was easy to install and customise. The teams were able to monitor the alerts and decide accordingly. **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** Not much. There is some learning curve but the staff was helpful to point out. **Recommendations to others considering CrowdSec:** Anyone who is willing to monitor their IP should consider CrowdSec at one point. Reach out to the staff to get some guidance on implementation. **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** Malicious IPs. We need to to identify blacklist and this was handy tool **Official Response from Jean Devaux:** > Hi Manu. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Our team is indeed always available to help. The best channel to reach out is Gitter. Feel free top drop by to say hello or if you need anything! ### 17. A good fail2ban replacement **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yannick S. | Travailleur indépendant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** Modularity, dev team listening the users, being able to parse logs at 1 place and block / act on another one. It's very easy to centralise the decisions when using multiples servers. **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** Nothing at the moment. The product is young and need more scenarios, but the community will slowly build that. **Recommendations to others considering CrowdSec:** Take the time to reach the dev team. Take the time to learn how the tool work, it's worth the time and effort you will put into it. **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly blocking bruteforce and vulnerabilty scans **Official Response from Jean Devaux:** > Thanks for being a great supporter Yannick. We value your feedback. The community, together with the team, will keep adding new scenarios and bouncers to the Hub in order to make the tool available to the greatest number. ### 18. Discovering a real effective solution against internet piratery **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gérald K. | Développeur embarqué / Consultant indépendant en CyberSécurité, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** An extraordinary and reactive community. Innovative technology. OpenSource license. **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** Complicated solution to configure for non-technical end-users. **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** Protect my servers and Internet access from botnets and attacks. **Official Response from Jean Devaux:** > Thank you for your support Gerald, glad to have you on board! ### 19. CrowdSec to mitigate **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** advantage of this tool is that it feeds on different sources to create a good combination of firewall and intrusion detection systems. **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** Works like as it was advertised.there is not much downside **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** Because Crowdsec may be configured in Client/Server mode, we can monitor alerts and choices from a single interface instead of needing to connect to each server. ### 20. A well thought needed protection engine **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jean-Philippe L. | Responsable commercial, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** Using a collaborative approach to create a database of threats that will benefit the whole community of users. No advanced technical knowledge is required so it can easily be used as a standart for Internet protection. **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** As a collaborative solutions its effectiveness rely on how massevely adopted it will be **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's a simple costless way of protecting our servers ### 21. CrowdSec, the must-have security tool of the decade **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicolas (Nÿco) V. | Consultant solutions opensource collaboration/communication, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** CrowdSec is a really simple concept, implemented in a free/opensource software, that allows to you blocks potential attacks on your servers, or to mitigate actual attacks **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** CrowdSec's internals might be a little bit complicated for regular IT users **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** CrowdSec is like a giant shield that protects you from several types of attacks ### 22. Next Gen protection **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thierry R. | Director Of Business Development IOT Business Unit, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** Really the full concept of leveraging a huge community of users to build intelligence which is then used to fight cyberthreats. I also like the capability to apply various counter measures depending of the detected behavior. **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** Nothing I can think about outside potential enhancements which I expect to see in a future release **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** End point and server threat detection and response Continuous update of malicious IP and threat patterns ### 23. Useful tool and timesaver **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexandre M. | Digital Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** CrowdSec tool is a real-time and energy saver to secure the website I build as a web designer/developer. Extra bonus, to the team that is very reactive to any request you may have. **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** Nothing in particular. I am looking for upcoming versions :) **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am winning a lot of time by installing the same feature on dozens of websites with no specific configuration. **Official Response from Jean Devaux:** > Thank you for your words Alex! ### 24. The best protection solution in 2021 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Wonchul C. | Chargé de Communication & Relations presse, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** Many innovative solutions for my WordPress site, very effective new solutions to solve old problems, the platform is really well built and easy to use from the first glance! **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** CrowdSec is an amazing solution, efficient, caring, and they'll keep getting better and better, so keep going. **Recommendations to others considering CrowdSec:** The best solution to protect yourself from attack **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** My site is well protected against cyber attacks thanks to CrowdSec! ### 25. An amazing solution to protect your cloud architectures **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jean E. | Co-founder / Cloud Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** It is automated and perfectly fits DevOps and system administrators security needs It is effortless to set up and deploy **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** I cannot find anything to say here, I really like the tool. **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is ensuring maximum security to my cloud architectures, thanks to the tool's detection capabilities as well as community IP blocklists. ### 26. Crowdsec is a fantastic Fail2Ban successor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raimund S. | CTO, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** It is very much faster than fail2ban was. The benefit of not only your logs but of crowd-sourced problem detection as well makes it better than fail2ban. **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** It is a bit more complex to set up than Fail2Ban. **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** We ban intruders and script kiddies, very important if you have internet-facing servers like VoIP PBX Servers as we do. **Official Response from Jean Devaux:** > Hello Raimund, Thanks for your comment. Since we release our latest 1.1 version (July 8th), setup is greatly facilitated by the distribution of new packages. Alongside existing ones for Debian and Ubuntu (Bionic, Bullseye, Buster, Focal, Stretch, Focal for x86-64 & arm), we now provide packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Amazon Linux. I am attaching a tutorial to help you get started. Hope this will help! ### 27. Brittany Day, Guardian Digital Director of Communications, LinuxSecurity Senior Editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brittany D. | Director of Communications , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** CrowdSec makes detecting and deterring attacks easy, and provides the invaluable peace of mind that our systems are secure. **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** I have nothing negative to report about CrowdSec. **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to easily and relaibly identify threats to our organization and secure sensitive data with CrowdSec. ### 28. The best site protection **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** The possibilities offered by Crowdsec allow it to be used for many things, particularly in my case for Wordpress and my servers which are connected together on a single LAPI. **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** I haven't really had any bad experiences, the support is French and very, very responsive. **Recommendations to others considering CrowdSec:** The best! **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** My site is protected against most attacks, and my machines too. ### 29. A Much Needed Platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel M. | Working at a company in the Bay Area and producing Unsupervised Learning, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** I like the fact that it started by solving an old problem in a new way, and extended that into a full platform. **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** I got in early, so some of the documentation wasn't great at first. But it's much stronger now. **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm using it to filter traffic from clients that send malicious content or exhibit malicious behavior. **Official Response from Jean Devaux:** > Hi Daniel, Thanks for being one of our early adopters, your support is very valuable to us. We did improve the documentation quite a lot over the past few months and will continue to do so! ### 30. Add features on your Security Glasses **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Sports | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** Obtain more security visibility on our websites Easy to install, easy to use **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** Windows is not supported yet so we can't protect all our websites (IIS) **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visibility on our Web Servers; Extend our security **Official Response from Jean Devaux:** > Hi. Thank you so much for your feedback. Please be aware that we'll start working on porting CrowdSec to WIndows from September onwards. We'll share the release news when appropriate! ### 31. Best open source multiplayer firewall **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saurabh M. | Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** This enhance and analyze behaviours respond to attack and best collaborative EDR **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** to improve Better user dashboard interface **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automate the security andswt up ownIntrusion system ### 32. Crowdsec Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Madhan I. | Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** It's an open-source and ERD tools that can be used widely across many project needs **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** Till now, I haven't seen anything which made me dislike this application **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** Leveraging automation and minimizing client security tasks ### 33. Useful and practical **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cyrille A. | Lead Security Analyst – Product & Innovation , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** Easy to use and Open source. The different level of integration possible. **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** Nothing special. May be for some features, a lack of maturity. **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better detection of Malicious IP than only my statistic of being attacks. ### 34. Let's make the internet safer together **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Éric H. | Architecte systèmes réseaux et sécurité, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** By the community, for all the community! **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** Easy to install, easy to understand: A real must-have! **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** Internet could be a safe place, if we decide it! **Official Response from Jean Devaux:** > Thanks Eric. Let's keep collaborating to make the Internet a safer place. ### 35. One of best Dynamic EDR **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Laurent M. | C, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** Read Logs after the first installations, various bouncers to ban IP's, etc... **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** Bouncers for Windows Systems, that's all ;-) **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** DDos attacks, monitoring SSH, Nginx **Official Response from Jean Devaux:** > Hi Laurent, Porting CrowdSec to other OS such as Windows is on our top priority list. We will also develop bouncers of course! ### 36. Great Security Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** Easy to set up and to use. The technology is super reliable, and it's open-source. **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** The console is still in beta, but they are releasing fast. **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** Make my web applications more secure. You don't need to hire an entire team of SecOps. ### 37. Efficent team **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** Approach of the filtering. Installation very simple. **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** Some connector are still in developement but will come soon **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better dynamic security **Official Response from Jean Devaux:** > Hello, Thanks for your comment. Like you said, our tech team is working on developing more connectors as we speak, we will share more news soon when they are released! ### 38. Excellent solution for our need **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2021 **What do you like best about CrowdSec?** Open source, simple, and easy to deploy. **What do you dislike about CrowdSec?** Nothing much at this moment, probably I would say it's the documentation. **What problems is CrowdSec solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes our applications more secure **Official Response from Jean Devaux:** > Hi there, Happy to see that our solution is able to fulfill some of your security needs. Thanks for your feedback regarding our documentation, we are working hard to improve its structure and readability to make sure visitors can easily navigate and find the information they need. We have made some great progress since its early release and will make sure to stick to that pace. ## CrowdSec Discussions - [What is CrowdSec used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-crowdsec-used-for) - 1 comment - [View CrowdSec pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/crowdsec/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-15+04%3A06%3A13+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=3c415b42-26df-4b5c-9357-10af46cf9560&secure%5Btoken%5D=5c1ebe1d7920acc67ed8b12819e36ee3a336376e4dbf9c1ad85497e89bdcb447&format=llm_user) ## CrowdSec Features **Prevention** - Intrusion Prevention - Firewall - Security hardening - Cloud Data Protection **Administration** - Policy Management - Logging and Reporting - Application Gateway - Concurrent Sessions **Agentic AI - Firewall Software** - Autonomous Task Execution - Adaptive Learning **Services - Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) ** - Managed Services **Orchestration** - Security Workflow Automation - Deployment **System Control** - Web Control - Application Control - System Isolation **Monitoring** - Behavior Monitoring - Observability **Detection** - Intrusion Detection - Security Monitoring - Anti-Malware / Malware Detection **Functionality** - Virtual Private Network (VPN) - Antivirus - URL Filtering - Availability **Automation** - Workflow Mapping - Workflow Automation - Automated Remediation - Log Monitoring **Information** - Proactive Alerts - Malware Detection - Intelligence Reports **Vulnerability Prevention** - Firewall - Malware Detection **Protection** - Runtime Protection - Workload Protection - Network Segmentation **Administration** - Compliance - Administration Console - - API / integrations **Monitoring** - Load Balancing - Continuous Analysis - Intrusion Prevention - Intrusion Detection **Orchestration** - Security Orchestration - Data Collection - Threat Intelligence - Data Visualization **Personalization** - Endpoint Intelligence - Security Validation **Security Management** - Incident Reports - Security Validation - Compliance **Response** - Alerting - Performance Baselin - High Availability/Disaster Recovery **Generative AI** - AI Text Summarization **Generative AI** - AI Text Summarization **Generative AI** - AI Text Summarization - Generate Attack Scenarios - Generate Threat Detection Rules - Generate Threat Summaries **Artificial Intelligence - Firewall** - AI Firewall **Agentic AI - Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS)** - Autonomous Task Execution - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - Threat Intelligence** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top CrowdSec Alternatives - [CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint Protection Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/crowdstrike-falcon-endpoint-protection-platform/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (417 reviews) - [Netgate pfSense](https://www.g2.com/products/netgate-pfsense/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (318 reviews) - [Sophos Endpoint](https://www.g2.com/products/sophos-endpoint/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (791 reviews)