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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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Security Harden Ubuntu 22.04
This collection is also interesting 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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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
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Unit tests for hardened images
In the past, I have used the inspec part of : https://dev-sec.io
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The Streisand project has been archived
There’s Dev-Sec which is more about multi-OS-platform as well as multi-IaS (Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
Free, to boot.
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I’ve been cryptojacked twice running self hosted apps
It's one of the most secure services to expose over the Internet (assuming you've setup key-based authentication - and some additional measures like restricting SSH access to a group. You can harden it a lot more)
- Basic Server Hardening Steps
ansible-playbooks
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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
debian-cis - PCI-DSS compliant Debian 10/11/12 hardening
crowdsec - CrowdSec - the open-source and participative security solution offering crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs and access to the most advanced real-world CTI.
goss - Quick and Easy server testing/validation
RHEL7-CIS - Ansible role for Red Hat 7 CIS Baseline
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.
setup-ipsec-vpn - Scripts to build your own IPsec VPN server, with IPsec/L2TP, Cisco IPsec and IKEv2
ansible-role-docker-rootless - Ansible role to install a rootless Docker server
madaidans-insecurities.github.io
streisand - Streisand sets up a new server running your choice of WireGuard, OpenConnect, OpenSSH, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, sslh, Stunnel, or a Tor bridge. It also generates custom instructions for all of these services. At the end of the run you are given an HTML file with instructions that can be shared with friends, family members, and fellow activists.
cloudera.cluster - Ansible for automating Cloudera Clusters on baremetal or similar. Main development is a Collection.
hardening - Hardening Ubuntu. Systemd edition.