# Crowdsec key

Crowdsec is a crowdsourced cyber security tool, used to automate blocking malicious actors. 

#### Enrolling in Crowdsec allows for some advanced functionality,

* Downloading managed blocklists
* Uploading IPs that your Crowdsec instance has identifed as malicious or risky
  * This helps other people using Crowdsec and will also show you stats on if other Crowdsec engines have seen this IP
* A nice UI to view and manage your blocked IP addresses
* Some email basic based reporting

## Create your Crowdsec account

> I set up Crowdsec a long time ago, so I can't remember the process, sorry. I am planning on writing documentation for this but haven't gotten around to it yet.

1. Sign up for a Crowdsec account, and select community / free tier when prompted

## Get your Enrollment key

1. Navigate to <https://app.crowdsec.net/>
2. Click on 'Enroll',
   1. copy the enroll key to your notepad


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