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How To Harden the Security of Your Production Django Project — step-by-step Python tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Harden the Security of Your Production Django Project

Developing a Django application can be a quick and clean experience, because its approach is flexible and scalable. Django also offers a variety of security-oriented settings that can help you seamlessly prepare your project for production. In this tutorial, you will leverage a security-oriented workflow for your Django development by implementing and configuring environment-based settings, dotENV, and Django’s built-in security settings.

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How To Install DenyHosts on Ubuntu 12.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install DenyHosts on Ubuntu 12.04

DenyHosts is a security tool written in python that monitors server access logs to prevent brute force attacks on a virtual private server. The program works by banning IP addresses that exceed a certain number of failed login attempts. This tutorial explains how to install denyhosts, how to whitelist your IP address, and where to find the denyhosts configuration file. It is written for Ubuntu 12.04.

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How to Perform Security Audits With Lynis on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Perform Security Audits With Lynis on Ubuntu 16.04

Lynis is a host-based, open-source security auditing application that can evaluate the security profile and posture of Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems. In this tutorial, you’ll install Lynis on and use it to perform a security audit of your server. Then you’ll explore the results of a sample audit, and configure Lynis to skip tests that aren’t relevant to your needs.

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How To Protect SSH with Fail2Ban on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Protect SSH with Fail2Ban on Ubuntu 14.04

Fail2ban is a daemon that can be run on your server to dynamically block clients that fail to authenticate correctly with your services repeatedly. This can help mitigate the affect of brute force attacks and illegitimate users of your services. In this guide, we’ll show demonstrate how to install and configure fail2ban to protect SSH and Nginx on an Ubuntu 14.04 server.

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