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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 Protect SSH with fail2ban on CentOS 6 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Protect SSH with fail2ban on CentOS 6

fail2ban provides a way to automatically protect virtual servers from malicious behavior. This tutorial shows you how to download the required EPEL repository needed to install Fail2Ban, copy the Configuration File, configure the fail2ban defaults, and configure the ssh defaults. This tutorial describes the required steps to set up fail2ban on CentOS.

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How To Secure Nginx with Let's Encrypt on Debian 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Secure Nginx with Let’s Encrypt on Debian 8

Let’s Encrypt is a new Certificate Authority (CA) that provides an easy way to obtain and install free TLS/SSL certificates, thereby enabling encrypted HTTPS on web servers. It simplifies the process by providing a software client, certbot (previously called letsencrypt),…

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How To Secure PostgreSQL on an Ubuntu VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Secure PostgreSQL on an Ubuntu VPS

Database management systems are extremely useful for handling information from websites and applications. PostgreSQL is a popular database management system that is incredibly powerful. When using PostgreSQL, it is essential that you take proper precautions to secure your databases. This article is an introduction to security practices when using PostgreSQL

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How To Set Up a Basic Iptables Firewall on Centos 6 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up a Basic Iptables Firewall on Centos 6

This article will show how to create a simple firewall on a Centos VPS. It will only open up ports that we want and close up other services. We’ll also demonstrate how to prevent simpler attacks, and how to let yourself back in to the VPS if you deny access to yourself by accident.

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