This guide covers the basics of hardening a new Linux virtual machine when you'd rather be doing something else.

It scratches the surface of the most obvious stuff. I’d only add running apps in isolation (docker or adduser) and maybe fail2ban.

  • Krtek@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    While in no means a security measure, just disabling IPv4 for SSH on my VPS has completely eliminated bots/scripts attempting to login to my VPS directly