Fail2ban for WordPress

fail2ban is a utility that can be used to protect a server or website from brute-force attacks by blocking the IP address of the attacker after a certain number of failed login attempts. If you want to use fail2ban to protect your WordPress website, you can do so by installing and configuring the fail2ban software … Read more

Lynis (How to find vulnerabilities and harden a Linux system)

Introduction: In the security industry, there is so much emphasis on Windows server and workstation security with thousands of security products dedicated to finding vulnerabilities and hardening servers. A few products that we have in the market are Nessus,  Nexpose, and OpenVAS, one may say they do support Linux and I agree entirely, but they … Read more

Monitor full network traffic with Arkime aka. Moloch

Monitoring the corporate network is a crucial part to safeguard the network against malicious threat actors. One may argue that there are IDS and IPS to detect malicious traffic on the network. Those advanced security devices can indeed be useful but one cannot see the full picture of the network. For example, IDS and IPS … Read more

AWS Security Audit – Scout2 for Security Auditing on your AWS Infrastructure

The cloud platform is a way to go for most companies today. With all the advantages like scalable, redundant, fault-tolerant, and highly available infrastructure, the cloud seems like a way to go for when thinking of long term growth. Let’s not go to the overly discussed topic of cloud vs on-primes infrastructure. Security should be … Read more

Deploy the Mattermost server. Install Mattermost on Ubuntu using PostgreSQL and Nginx. A privacy alternative for slack.

Communication is the most important aspect of the team’s success. Having efficient communication with the team members has to be a key component for any team leader. This key component in today’s corporate environment is dominated by Instant messaging tools like slack and discord. This wasn’t the case before, instead the use of email was … Read more