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ansible-collection-hardening
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Ask HN: What open-source projects are you currently contributing to and why?
An ansible collection for hardening Linux systems I mostly wrote: https://github.com/dev-sec/ansible-collection-hardening
Another ansible collection to manage Icinga: https://github.com/T-Systems-MMS/ansible-collection-icinga-d...
And the yunohost app for invoice ninja: https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/invoiceninja5_ynh
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Ansible - how widely used is it ?
i have some packer builds where itll install ansible, run playbooks locally, then uninstall ansible. such as the the devsec os hardening role: https://github.com/dev-sec/ansible-collection-hardening
- What hardening before forwarding services?
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Security Harden Ubuntu 22.04
This collection is also interesting https://github.com/dev-sec/ansible-collection-hardening/
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What you guys use for website protection? We use sentinel one but doesn't cover web related items
Second you want to ensure the os is secure and up to date. Take a look at os hardening best practices, for example this ansible playbook for linux: https://github.com/dev-sec/ansible-collection-hardening
- Ansible for automation/ hardening.
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How do you document your (whole) setup ? Looking for ideas.
To ensure SSH and other security related things are configured correctly, you can take a look at DevSec which helps you to apply proven security configuration principles. Also there is guides like "Secure Secure Shell" which can help you to better understand what you can do to increase the security of your servers (this one is from 2015 but many aspects are still relevant).
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Recommendations for advanced material (reading material, courses, etc) on server security?
I learned a lot by using and reading through the source code of these ansible roles: https://github.com/dev-sec/ansible-collection-hardening
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Ask HN: How to secure Ubuntu VPS in 2022?
Have a look at https://github.com/dev-sec/ansible-collection-hardening
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SSH Bastion host best practices: How to Build and Deploy a Security-Hardened SSH Bastion Host
You can do much more https://github.com/dev-sec/ansible-collection-hardening/tree/master/roles/ssh_hardening
How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server
- An evolving how-to guide for securing a Linux server
- How to Secure a Linux Server
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Should I set up my own server?
- own server costs about $5/month. I recommend using docker to deploy hbbr and hbbs. Back up the key in case you need to re-deploy. You do need to secure your Linux server, and this community-driven Github guide has some good tips to get started.
- How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server: An evolving how-to guide for securing a Linux server.
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Automating the security hardening of a Linux server
I have been using the How To Secure A Linux Server guide for quite a while and wanted to learn Ansible, so I created two playbooks to automate most of the guides content. The playbooks are still a work in progress.
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Connecting to docker containers rarely work, including via Caddy (non docker) reverse proxy
If it works, I will then follow the hardening guide I did before (https://github.com/imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server) and test after every step
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Resources to learn backend security from scratch
Maybe these two repos can help you, I've used them both from time to time to look up stuff I have no idea about as a frontend main: https://github.com/imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server https://github.com/decalage2/awesome-security-hardening
- Time to start security hardening - been lucky for too long
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Ask HN: How can a total beginner start with self-hosting
> In short it’s all about control, privacy, and security, in that order.
I am going to strongly urge you to consider changing that order and move *security* to the first priority. I have long run my own servers, it is much easier to setup a server with strong security foundation, than to clean up afterwards.
As a beginner, you should stick to a well known and documented Linux server distribution such as Ubuntu Server LTS or Fedora. Only install the programs you need. Do not install a windowing system on it. Do everything for the server from the command line.
Here are a few blog posts I have bookmarked over the years that I think are geared to beginners:
"My First 5 Minutes On A Server; Or, Essential Security for Linux Servers": An quick walk through of how to do basic server security manually [1]. There was a good Hacker News discussion about this article, most of the response suggests using tools to automate these types of security tasks [2], however the short tutorial will teach you a great deal, and automation mostly only makes sense when you are deploying a number of similar servers. I definitely take a more manual hands-on approach to managing my personal servers compared to the ones I professionally deploy.
"How To Secure A Linux Server": An evolving how-to guide for securing a Linux server that, hopefully, also teaches you a little about security and why it matters. [3]
Both Linode[4] and Digital Ocean[5] have created good sets of Tutorials and documentation that are generally trustworthy and kept up-to-date
Good luck and have fun
[1]: https://sollove.com/2013/03/03/my-first-5-minutes-on-a-serve...
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5316093
[3]: https://github.com/imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Serve...
[4]: https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/
[5]: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials
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Selfhosting Security for Cloud Providers like Hetzner
I suggest these resources: - Some fundamentals: https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-security.html - One of the best imho ( exhaustive list ): https://github.com/imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server - Ansible playbook to harden security by Jeff Geerling: https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-security - OAWSP Check list ( targeted for web apps... and honestly a bit overkill ): https://github.com/0xRadi/OWASP-Web-Checklist
What are some alternatives?
debian-cis - PCI-DSS compliant Debian 10/11/12 hardening
authelia - The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps
crowdsec - CrowdSec - the open-source and participative security solution offering crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs and access to the most advanced real-world CTI.
Gitea - Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD
goss - Quick and Easy server testing/validation
docker-socket-proxy - Proxy over your Docker socket to restrict which requests it accepts
RHEL7-CIS - Ansible role for Red Hat 7 CIS Baseline
PowerDNS - PowerDNS Authoritative, PowerDNS Recursor, dnsdist
ansible-collection-nginx - Ansible collection for NGINX
netboot.xyz - Your favorite operating systems in one place. A network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.
lynis - Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and system hardening. Agentless, and installation optional.