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HOW TO SET UP AIDE – ADVANCED INTRUSION DETECTION ENVIRONMENT Date Posted: 13/03/2019 Introduction Aide also called as Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment is an open source host based file and directory integrity checker. It is very usefull when someone placing a backdoor on your web site and make changes that… Continue Reading HOW TO SET UP AIDE – ADVANCED INTRUSION DETECTION ENVIRONMENT

SETTING MAX PASSWORD LOGIN ATTEMPTS PER SESSION In CENTOS -7 Date Posted : 27/02/2019 Introduction For every session, it is essential to set a max password login attempt. This helps to ensure that unauthorized users are prevented from attempting a brute force attack on the server. In most cases, you… Continue Reading SETTING MAX PASSWORD LOGIN ATTEMPTS PER SESSION In CENTOS -7

HOW TO SECURE A SERVER USING AUDITD SERVICE DATE POSTED: 24/02/2019 Introduction on Auditd service Auditd is a key component which plays major role in Linux Auditing System. It is responsible for writing audit records to disk. You can configure audit rules, view logs and customize it based on your… Continue Reading HOW TO SECURE A SERVER USING AUDITD SERVICE

How to harden the Linux server or centos 5 or centos 6.2 SPRI (Priority Scheduler) cd /root/ wget http://www.rfxn.com/downloads/spri-current.tar.gz tar xvfz spri-*.tar.gz cd spri-* ./install.sh spri -v PRM (Process Resource Monitor) cd /root wget http://www.rfxn.com/downloads/prm-current.tar.gz tar xvfz prm-*.tar.gz cd prm-* ./install.sh prm -j Temporary Directory Hardening —————————– /bin/cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak… Continue Reading Hardening the linux server or cenos 5/6.2