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Fail2ban is not a complete defense, but it is a useful friction layer for noisy abuse. I use it where login failures or repeated 401s clearly indicate hostile automation. It works best when paired with centralized logs and upstream rate limiting, not

Rate limiting is both a security control and an availability control. I use it to slow credential stuffing, login brute force, and noisy scraping without punishing normal use. The trick is keying limits on the right dimensions and emitting metrics so