Atypical hacker will try to force their way into your server by trying to log in to it using the administrator account or a known user account. Usually they use some form of script that uses random or commonly used passwords. If your passwords are complex it’s hopefully a futile attempt on their part but can you vouch for all of your user passwords? Also if the attack is quite severe a lot of failed login requests can cause a heavy load on your server.
The worst thing of all is not even knowing if someone is even trying to hack into your server on the first place. This article will take you through a free solution on how to detect if someone is trying to break into your server, how you can be alerted to the fact and most importantly how to stop them from continuing their hack attempt.