How to Configure Suricata IDS/IPS on RHEL 7 Suricata is a high-performance, open-source network threat detection engine maintained by the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF). It can operate as an Intrusion Detection System (IDS), passively monitoring traffic and alerting on suspicious patterns, or as an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), actively blocking malicious connections using the […]
Introduction to Active Directory Certificate Services A Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) built on Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) on Windows Server 2019 provides the foundation for internal certificate management: TLS/SSL certificates for web servers and services, smart card authentication, encrypted email (S/MIME), code signing, and encrypted file systems (EFS). A proper enterprise PKI uses […]
🟡 Medium ⏱ 5–30 min Last verified: 14 September 2019 Affected versions: 18.04 LTS 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & […]
🟡 Medium ⏱ 5–30 min Last verified: 14 September 2019 Affected versions: Windows Server 2012 R2 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution — Primary Fix Solution — Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related […]
Introduction FreeBSD 12 is a UNIX-derived operating system renowned for its network stack performance, ZFS integration, and Jail isolation primitives. Setting up automate backups with rsync on freebsd 12 on FreeBSD 12 follows the rc.conf/service(8) paradigm rather than systemd, which means enabling a service and configuring its startup options are done differently from any Linux […]
🟡 Medium ⏱ 5–30 min Last verified: 14 September 2019 Affected versions: Windows Server 2016 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution — Primary Fix Solution — Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors […]
How to Configure Certificate Auto-Enrollment via Group Policy on Windows Server 2012 R2 Certificate auto-enrollment allows domain computers and users to automatically request, receive, and renew digital certificates from an Enterprise CA without any manual intervention. This eliminates the administrative burden of manually issuing certificates to hundreds or thousands of devices and users, ensures certificates […]
Introduction This guide explains how to Install SQLite on FreeBSD 12 on FreeBSD 12. FreeBSD uses the pkg(8) binary package manager, rc.conf(5) for service startup configuration, and pf(4) as its primary packet filter. There is no SELinux or AppArmor — instead, FreeBSD provides the MAC (Mandatory Access Control) framework and Capsicum for fine-grained privilege separation. […]
Introduction This guide explains how to Set Up BGP Routing with BIRD on Debian 9 on Debian 9 Stretch. Debian Stretch uses systemd for service management, nftables as the underlying packet filter (with ufw or iptables front-ends still available), and AppArmor for mandatory access control. Every command is designed for a minimal Debian 9 install […]
Introduction Deploying configure ssh hardening on debian 9 on a Debian 9 Stretch machine is straightforward thanks to Debian’s policy-compliant packaging. Unlike rpm-based distributions, Debian stores configuration helpers in /etc/default/, uses update-rc.d for older init scripts, and provides dpkg-reconfigure for interactive package configuration. This tutorial stays on the systemd path throughout. Prerequisites You will need […]
