AppArmor has been Ubuntu’s default Mandatory Access Control layer for over a decade, and on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS…
ClamAV is the open source antivirus scanner most Linux shops reach for when they need signature-based malware detection…
Passwords on SSH are a bad idea. Brute-force bots hammer port 22 around the clock, and even a…
Every internet-facing Ubuntu server takes a constant beating from SSH brute force, WordPress login spray, and bot scanners.…
Fail2ban has been the default answer for “block brute-force attempts” on Linux servers for over a decade. It…
You want a VPN that lives on your own box, terminates where you decide, and logs exactly what…
A freshly installed Ubuntu 26.04 server is reasonable out of the box, but it is not hardened. Default…
Every remote worker, every road-warrior laptop, every home-lab server that needs to reach the office safely ends up…
Centralized logging stops being a luxury the moment you run more than a couple of servers. Tailing files…
Some monitoring stacks make you pick between feature-rich and heavy. Prometheus plus Alertmanager plus Grafana is amazing, but…
A fresh Ubuntu 26.04 server accepts connections on every open port by default. That is fine on a…
Netdata gives you per-second metrics with zero configuration. Install it, open port 19999, and you’re monitoring everything the…
