Articles tagged as "Security". 4 results

How to Install Ansible and Automate Your Ubuntu 22.04 Server Setup

Why you might want to use Ansible as your automation engine, how to install it and get it set up.

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Brad Touesnard

Apr 24, 2023

Chapter 07: Nginx Security Hardening

Even after configuring HTTPS to encrypt connections between the browser and server, sites are still open to other areas of attack such as XSS, Clickjacking and MIME sniffing. We’ll take a look at each of those and how to deal with them. You’ll learn what a referrer policy is and how it can be useful.

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Ashley Rich

Apr 04, 2023

Chapter 01: Set Up a Secure Virtual Server on DigitalOcean

In this chapter we’ll provision a new VPS at DigitalOcean with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. We’ll login to the server via SSH, configure the hostname and timezone, install software updates, and set up automatic security updates. Then we’ll create a new sudo user, set up SSH login with keys instead of a password, and disable SSH for the root user. We’ll also install a firewall and fail2ban to protect against intrusion attempts.

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Ashley Rich

Apr 04, 2023

What Are WAFs? A Detailed Look at Web Application Firewalls

How WAFs work, the types of threats they protect against, the pros and cons of various kinds of WAFs, and whether you should consider installing one.

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James Clark

Mar 17, 2022

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