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SUSE · Jul 14, 2023 · 33ad3e3 · 33ad3e3
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     <para><emphasis>Fail2Ban</emphasis>comes with filters for various services, such as Apache,SSH,Courier etc.
     You can use <emphasis>Fail2Ban</emphasis> to minimize the rate of incorrect authentications attempts.</para>
   </sect2>
-   </sect1>
+  <sect2 xml:id="sec-security-ssh-fail2ban-use">
+    <title>Using <emphasis>Fail2Ban</emphasis> to stop a SSH brute force attack</title>
+    <para>You can use install and configure<emphasis>Fail2Ban</emphasis>to protect
+      the remote server against SSH brute force attacks. <emphasis>Fail2Ban</emphasis>
+      works on authentication log files and by default it scans files such as <filename>/var/log/auth.log</filename>,
+      <filename>/var/log/apache/access.log</filename>, etc.
+    </para>
+  </sect2>
+  </sect1>
 </chapter>