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Securing SSH 🤖

Introduction SSH is a widely used protocol to access remote devices. The problem with SSH is at the authentication stage, Brute force attacks are one of the ways an SSH connection is compromised. A malicious actor will constantly hammer the remote host with different passwords until it can gain access. With further configuration of SSH we can make the service a lot more secure. Configure SSH Famous last words: Configuring SSH like many things in Linux is as simple as editing a few config files...

December 7, 2021 · 8 min · 1589 words · ahmza