Below article is a must read to harden your existing sshd configuration file Best practices to harden and increase security with ssh (ciphers, MACs etc) By default root user had direct login access to the Linux machine which can be dangerous and in most organisation it is restricted But how do we restrict a direct … Read more
In my another article I have shared the steps to configure SSH port forwarding and tunnelling in Linux Below are some of the selected arguments which can be used in sshd_config to harden the ssh based security. There can be many more such arguments which you can find from man page of sshd_config HostKey A … Read more
Lately, internet users (read: everyone) are in a bit of a frenzy regarding online security. Antivirus and antimalware software is soaring in popularity. There are a million VPN apps for your smartphone (most of which don’t work). And everyone is telling you to stop what you’re doing and subscribe to one. But why do you … Read more
We use Linux for many reasons. Security is just one of them, but it’s undeniable that Linux is more secure than other operating systems. Securing our data is especially important to us, since our devices contain a lot of our personal information. Without the requisite protection, we open ourselves up to identity theft. Choosing the … Read more
To improve security in our environment many times we have to blacklist certain modules from getting loaded in our setup to avoid any security leak. The provided procedure is tested with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Before starting with the blacklisting let us validate our usb module is properly loaded # lsmod | grep -i … Read more
Now we hear many times from most of the people around us claiming that Linux is much more secure than Windows or Linux is very secure. But what are the things in Linux that makes it secure than Windows or any other Operating System. Here I will try to throw some light on some of … Read more
