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CrowdSec - the open-source and participative security solution offering crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs and access to the most advanced real-world CTI.
https://github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec

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CrowdSec - the open-source and participative security solution offering crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs and access to the most advanced real-world CTI.

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:computer: Console (WebApp)

:books: Documentation

:diamond_shape_with_a_dot_inside: Configuration Hub

:speech_balloon: Discourse (Forum)

:speech_balloon: Discord (Live Chat)




:dancer: This is a community-driven project, we need your feedback.



## 



CrowdSec is a free, modern & collaborative behavior detection engine, coupled with a global IP reputation network. It stacks on fail2ban's philosophy but is IPV6 compatible and 60x faster (Go vs Python), it uses Grok patterns to parse logs and YAML scenarios to identify behaviors. CrowdSec is engineered for modern Cloud / Containers / VM-based infrastructures (by decoupling detection and remediation). Once detected you can remedy threats with various bouncers (firewall block, nginx http 403, Captchas, etc.) while the aggressive IP can be sent to CrowdSec for curation before being shared among all users to further improve everyone's security. See [FAQ](https://doc.crowdsec.net/docs/faq) or read below for more.



## 2 mins install



Installing it through the [Package system](https://doc.crowdsec.net/docs/getting_started/install_crowdsec) of your OS is the easiest way to proceed. 

Otherwise, you can install it from source.



### From package (Debian)



```sh

curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/crowdsec/crowdsec/script.deb.sh | sudo bash

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install crowdsec

```



### From package (rhel/centos/amazon linux)



```sh

curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/crowdsec/crowdsec/script.rpm.sh | sudo bash

sudo yum install crowdsec

```



### From package (FreeBSD)



```

sudo pkg update

sudo pkg install crowdsec

```



### From source



```sh

wget https://github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec/releases/latest/download/crowdsec-release.tgz

tar xzvf crowdsec-release.tgz

cd crowdsec-v* && sudo ./wizard.sh -i

```



## :information_source: About the CrowdSec project



Crowdsec is an open-source, lightweight software, detecting peers with aggressive behaviors to prevent them from accessing your systems. Its user-friendly design and assistance offer a low technical barrier of entry and nevertheless a high security gain.



The architecture is as follows :





 CrowdSec




Once an unwanted behavior is detected, deal with it through a [bouncer](https://app.crowdsec.net/hub/remediation-components). The aggressive IP, scenario triggered and timestamp are sent for curation, to avoid poisoning & false positives. (This can be disabled). If verified, this IP is then redistributed to all CrowdSec users running the same scenario.



## Outnumbering hackers all together



By sharing the threat they faced, all users are protecting each-others (hence the name Crowd-Security). Crowdsec is designed for modern infrastructures, with its "*Detect Here, Remedy There*" approach, letting you analyze logs coming from several sources in one place and block threats at various levels (applicative, system, infrastructural) of your stack.



CrowdSec ships by default with scenarios (brute force, port scan, web scan, etc.) adapted for most contexts, but you can easily extend it by picking more of them from the **[HUB](https://hub.crowdsec.net)**. It is also easy to adapt an existing one or create one yourself.



## :point_right: What it is not



CrowdSec is not a SIEM, storing your logs (neither locally nor remotely). Your data are analyzed locally and forgotten.



Signals sent to the curation platform are limited to the very strict minimum: IP, Scenario, Timestamp. They are only used to allow the system to spot new rogue IPs, and rule out false positives or poisoning attempts.



## :arrow_down: Install it !



Crowdsec is available for various platforms :



 - [Use our debian repositories](https://doc.crowdsec.net/docs/getting_started/install_crowdsec) or the [official debian packages](https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=crowdsec&searchon=names&suite=stable&section=all)

 - An [image](https://hub.docker.com/r/crowdsecurity/crowdsec) is available for docker

 - [Prebuilt release packages](https://github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec/releases) are also available (suitable for `amd64`)

 - You can as well [build it from source](https://doc.crowdsec.net/docs/user_guides/building)



Or look directly at [installation documentation](https://doc.crowdsec.net/docs/getting_started/install_crowdsec) for other methods and platforms.



## :tada: Key benefits



### Fast assisted installation, no technical barrier



  Initial configuration is automated, providing functional out-of-the-box setup

  



### Out of the box detection



  Baseline detection is effective out-of-the-box, no fine-tuning required (click to expand)

  



### Easy bouncer deployment



  It's trivial to add bouncers to enforce decisions of crowdsec (click to expand)

  



### Easy dashboard access



  It's easy to deploy a metabase interface to view your data simply with cscli (click to expand)

  



### Hot & Cold logs



  Process cold logs, for forensic, tests and chasing false positives & false negatives (click to expand)

  



## 📦 About this repository



This repository contains the code for the two main components of crowdsec :

 - `crowdsec` : the daemon a-la-fail2ban that can read, parse, enrich and apply heuristics to logs. This is the component in charge of "detecting" the attacks

 - `cscli` : the cli tool mainly used to interact with crowdsec : ban/unban/view current bans, enable/disable parsers and scenarios.



## Contributing



If you wish to contribute to the core of crowdsec, you are welcome to open a PR in this repository.



If you wish to add a new parser, scenario or collection, please open a PR in the [hub repository](https://github.com/crowdsecurity/hub).



If you wish to contribute to the documentation, please open a PR in the [documentation repository](http://github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec-docs).