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How To Configure Packet Filter (PF) on FreeBSD 12.1 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure Packet Filter (PF) on FreeBSD 12.1

PF is a renown firewall application that is maintained upstream by the security-driven OpenBSD project. It is more accurately expressed as a packet filtering tool, hence the name, and it is known for its simple syntax, user-friendliness, and extensive features. In this tutorial you’ll build a firewall from the ground up on a FreeBSD 12.1 server with PF. You’ll design a base ruleset that can be used as a template for future projects.

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Первоначальная настройка сервера с ОС Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Первоначальная настройка сервера с ОС Ubuntu 18.04

При создании нового сервера Ubuntu 18.04 необходимо выполнить ряд операций конфигурирования в рамках ранней стадии базовой настройки. Это повысит уровень безопасности и удобства использования вашего сервера, а также создаст прочную основу для дальнейших…

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How To Protect SSH with fail2ban on Debian 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Protect SSH with fail2ban on Debian 7

SSH is a very convenient tool for remotely administering your servers. However, it does open your machine up to brute force attacks designed to crack your password and gain access to your machine. In this guide, we will discuss how to install and configure fail2ban, which will ban repeated unsuccessful authentication attempts, on a Debian 7 system.

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How To Install and Configure OSSEC Security Notifications on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Configure OSSEC Security Notifications on Ubuntu 14.04

This tutorial will show you how to install and configure OSSEC to monitor one the cloud provider server running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. We’ll configure OSSEC so that if a file is modified, deleted, or added to the server, OSSEC will notify you by email – in real-time. That’s in addition to other integrity-checking features that OSSEC offers.

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How To Configure a FreeIPA Client on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure a FreeIPA Client on Ubuntu 16.04

FreeIPA is an open-source security solution for Linux which provides account management and centralized authentication, similar to Microsoft’s Active Directory. FreeIPA is built on top of multiple open source projects including the 389…

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How To Use the Linux Auditing System on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use the Linux Auditing System on CentOS 7

The Linux Auditing System helps system administrators create an audit trail, a log for every action on the server. We can track security-relevant events, record the events in a log file, and detect misuse or unauthorized activities by inspecting the audit log files.

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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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