What’s new

The biggest release since 1.0, CrowdSec Security Engine 1.5 brings you new features, major enhancements, and more control of your security management. Discover all that is new in 1.5 and how to get started in this article.

CrowdSec exhibited at FIC Lille this year, an event that hosts over 19,000 end customers, service providers, government agencies, students, and more for discussions centered around digital security. Get the inside scoop on our participation there and the outcome of such a big event.

In Part 2 of ‘Building a Network for Smaller Businesses,” Peter will dive into running configurations on the firewall, with explanations of the design decision made for each service and going through each service one by one. Using this guide, anyone with basic networking knowledge can replicate this setup. 

Our work on CrowdSec 1.5 (our latest release that will be available in the summer of this year) has allowed us to achieve much faster response times when processing high volumes of logs, while significantly reducing the amount of processing power needed. See our benchmarking tests and get a closer look at the results!

CrowdSec 1.5 is the biggest version since 1.0 with plenty of new features, capabilities, and more! Take a look at what we have in store and be one of the first to test it out before we officially launch it this summer.

Follow this guide to learn how to secure your self-hosted Supabase deployment via docker-compose using CrowdSec for enhanced protection, detection of sophisticated attacks and capabilities to integrate in cloud-native workflows. 

CrowdSec joins the Google for Startups Growth Academy: Cybersecurity and will participate in the three-month program to gain skills to grow to help combat cybercrime through collaborative threat intelligence and open security.

Read Peter’s thesis on how to build, test, and secure networks with CrowdSec for small businesses so they can achieve a more affordable firewall and router combination. 

Discover the new CrowdSec Community API Key that allows you to query our global CTI database. You will be able to get insights about an IP’s malicious activity detected by our network, but this time with other tools outside of the CrowdSec Console. Enrich your prevention or forensics analysis with CrowdSec’s Cyber Threat Intelligence.

All users on the CrowdSec Console can now subscribe their instances to third-party blocklists cherry-picked by our expert team. With these 14 blocklists, including 3 premium ones, you can secure your systems against VoIP fraud, botnets, and more.

Scenarios are core elements of the CrowdSec detection engine and enable it to recognize suspicious behavior as well as make a decision on whether to block an IP. Discover how to modify existing scenarios, and help make the community safer by creating new ones.

Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, the leading bancassurance group in France, deploys CrowdSec to protect their systems against malicious traffic and also benefits from the real-time information sharing on threats through CrowdSec’s actionable collective intelligence.

CrowdSec is efficient at blocking ransomware lateral moves, where Windows machines are often involved. In this article, we are going to explore how to configure CrowdSec to detect and stop ransomware from spreading through your internal networks.

COO Laurent Soubrevilla took a gamble when he started CrowdSec with the other founders but made sure to make all the right decisions to ensure it would withstand the challenges of 2022 and 2023. In this article, he shares the story, strategy, and takeaways from launching an open-source and collaborative software company in the field of cybersecurity.

There are not many FOSS security tools available for Windows servers, but CrowdSec has made the move to change that. Offering a free tool to keep your Windows servers secure, you gain much more than protection with CrowdSec. Let’s dive into the benefits and take a closer look in this article.

You can now integrate CrowdSec CTI into your XSOAR and XSIAM platforms, freeing up time spent investigating each unwanted behavior. Your SOC team will have access to highly accurate and centralized IP reputation data built from a global community of real users, spread across 178 countries.

Artificial Intelligence is making its breakthrough into society, fed mainly by a western-thinking subgroup of mankind. The question arises - what kind of impact will this have on our lives? Will it be an exceptional advantage or snowball into a kind of inbreeding 2.0 similar to what we saw with the Royals and regimes of the past? Philippe Humeau shares his take on this topic.

In this article, you will have the steps to install and configure: a Kubernetes cluster, an application to protect, a Traefik ingress object, a CrowdSec bouncer in the form of a Traefik plugin, a CrowdSec LAPI for the whole cluster and an agent for each cluster node.

ShieldPRO joins forces with CrowdSec to boost protection and prevention of attacks for their members, through signal sharing and a community blocklist tailor-made for WordPress.

Follow this step-by-step guide on installing CrowdSec on a Microsoft Exchange server to better protect against common cyberattacks and new threats.

We just released a new version of the CrowdSec Console with new features for your instances management, improvements in user experience, and bug fixes. Learn all about them in this article!

Save time and avoid Alert Fatigue with the new Background Noise filter available in the CrowdSec Console for all premium users.

CrowdSec offers the largest detection network in the world thanks to a collaborative community and being easily integrated almost anywhere. Discover 3 integration examples that have helped boost CrowdSec's network and detailed database on attacks.

We just released the HAProxy Bouncer which brings you features such as support of Stream Mode, captcha remediations (reCaptcha V2), ban template and redirection location. Discover all about this new feature and use the guide provided to install the bouncer.

We are happy to announce that CrowdSec has closed a €14M Series A round led by Supernova Invest and accompanied by CrowdSec’s historic investor, Breega. Our ambition with this round is to combat cybercrime by strengthening our position as the world’s largest crowdsourced CTI network in the world. 

In the article we discuss how we quickly implemented a CrowdSec bouncer into MeshCentral, a NodeJS/ExpressJS application by using the CrowdSec-provided express-bouncer package on NPM as a starting point.

CrowdSec is not just about security. As it turns out, if you're able to block attacks so your server doesn't have to deal with them, you'll also save CPU as this article will show you.

Check how to combine Suricata and CrowdSec for a better security of your assets.

At CrowdSec, we like challenges. And one of them is high logs volume processing to protect web infrastructures with larger traffic. In this article, we will see how to achieve high performance in log processing and push limits with horizontal scaling.

Las Vegas in August is the best place to meet almost every cybersecurity professional or a company rep, thanks to 3 significant events happening over one week. This year CrowdSec is going to Vegas; read the article to learn why it is important to us and why you might want to meet us there.

While working on some new features for CrowdSec, we also have been experimenting with scenarios focused on post-exploitation behaviors, relying on auditd for Linux. That experiment led to another...how quickly can a machine get compromised? How fast can the CrowdSec network spot this compromised machine? And, how fast will it make its way to the crowdsourced blocklist? This article will answer all these questions and more!