security

How To Install and Secure Redis on Rocky Linux 9 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Secure Redis on Rocky Linux 9

Redis is an open-source, in-memory key-value data store which excels at caching. Redis is a *non-relational* database known for its flexibility, performance, scalability, and wide language support. This tutorial covers a few settings that can boost the security of a standalone Redis installation on Rocky Linux 9.

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How To Protect an Nginx Server with Fail2Ban on Rocky Linux 9 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Protect an Nginx Server with Fail2Ban on Rocky Linux 9

In this guide, you will learn how to install `fail2ban` on a Rocky Linux 9 server and configure it to monitor your Nginx logs for intrusion attempts. Fail2ban can significantly mitigate brute force attacks by creating rules that automatically alter your firewall configuration to ban specific IPs after a certain number of unsuccessful login attempts. This will allow your server to harden itself against these access attempts without intervention from you.

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Securing Your Droplet — step-by-step Security tutorial on Progressive Robot

Securing Your Droplet

Secure your Droplet from malicious actors attempting to compromise your systems. This talk will cover the foundations of securing your droplet, protecting your users, and keeping your data safe.

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How to Set Up Squid Proxy for Private Connections on Rocky Linux 9 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Squid Proxy for Private Connections on Rocky Linux 9

Proxy servers are a useful way of caching or obfuscating web traffic. This means that web requests can be served from different inbound or outbound addresses than they appear to be, by offloading the connection to intermediaries. For regular end users, this usually means allowing you to make web requests from a different IP address than your own. Squid is a stable, popular, open-source HTTP proxy. In this tutorial, you will be installing and configuring Squid to provide an HTTP proxy on Rocky.

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How To Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Debian 11 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Secure Apache with Let’s Encrypt on Debian 11

Let’s Encrypt is a Certificate Authority (CA) that provides an easy way to obtain and install free TLS/SSL certificates, thereby enabling encrypted HTTPS on web servers. In this tutorial, you will use Certbot to obtain a free SSL certificate for Apache on Debian 11 and set up your certificate to renew automatically.

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