security

How To Install Suricata on Rocky Linux 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Suricata on Rocky Linux 8

Suricata is a Network Security Monitoring (NSM) tool that uses sets of community created and user defined signatures (also referred to as rules) to examine and process network traffic. In this tutorial you will learn how to install Suricata, and how to customize some of its default settings on Rocky Linux 8 to suit your needs.

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How To Set Up SSH Keys on Rocky Linux 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up SSH Keys on Rocky Linux 8

SSH, or secure shell, is an encrypted protocol used to administer and communicate with servers. When working with a Rocky Linux server, chances are you will spend most of your time in a terminal session connected to your server through SSH. In this guide, we’ll focus on…

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How To Protect SSH with Fail2Ban on Rocky Linux 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Protect SSH with Fail2Ban on Rocky Linux 8

Fail2ban is a service that can be run on your server to dynamically block clients that repeatedly fail to authenticate correctly with your services . This can help mitigate the affect of brute force attacks and illegitimate users of your services. In this guide, we’ll demonstrate how to install and configure fail2ban to protect SSH on a Rocky Linux 8 server.

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How to Set Up Squid Proxy for Private Connections on Rocky Linux 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Squid Proxy for Private Connections on Rocky Linux 8

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. In this tutorial, you will be installing and configuring Squid to support a number of popular proxy protocols on a Rocky Linux 8 server.

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How To Protect an Nginx Server with Fail2Ban on Rocky Linux 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Protect an Nginx Server with Fail2Ban on Rocky Linux 8

In this guide, you will learn how to install `fail2ban` on a Rocky Linux 8 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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