This is an update from my IPTABLES config file v2.2 article File: iptablesv25.sh # Jim McKibben # 2014-07-23 # Version 2.5 # Iptables Firewall configuration script # Allows HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, SMTP # SSH Port easy customization # Allows Local Loopback # Allows specific ICMP # Allows DNS Query and Response # Blocks bad source…
Security is a trick world and unless you want your hosts log files scrolling your SMS buffer on your phone, you have to enable something that allows some degree of automated response. Zabbix is certainly one of the more free and better tools in that element. Here I will log my progress with setting up…
More on this later, for now, this is going to be how we get started. https://gist.github.com/garlandkr/3753451
Auditing has become my main job as of late and so I developed a method to inspect Linux Servers from the inside out, checking for a list of Best Practices and Recommended Values and the like. File: seccheck.sh #!/bin/bash # Linux Security Check version .2.0 # 2012-10-18 # Modified by Jim McKibben # Original concept…
Again, working to harden Linux as much as possible. After much searching, reading, researching, comparison, and experimentation I developed this. I will update this post with new content when I revise the firewall configuration. If you scroll down towards the bottom of this post you will find the rest of the parts that make this…
