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Make Your Servers Invisible!

I'm delighted to be able to offer the first chapter of my security book, Linux Server Security: Hack and Defend, for free as a PDF.

Idempotency With Ansible

Enforcing sophisticated security policies is possible with a number of tools, I prefer Ansible: Build Idempotent Servers

Updates

Admin Magazine

AWS Lambda: Custom Runtimes

AWS Security: AWS GuardDuty and Terraform

AppSec in Docker: ZAP and Mutillidae in Docker

Auditing Kubernetes security: Securing Kubernetes

Ansible Tower's upstream project article: Ansible Tower AWX

Using Terraform on AWS to provide geo-DNS failover

A piece on Tuning Ansible

Cloud: AWS Kubernetes and Docker: SuperContainers

The perils of Securing Docker Containers

Linux Magazine

Here's a piece about catching bad guys with Honeypots in Docker: Cowrie

This article about containers discusses Enterprise Container Security and Docker EE

Here's a slightly unusual piece I wrote about secret URLs in Linux Magazine: Magic URL

There's a relatively simple article: Encrypt AWS S3 backups

Manual steps to start Securing Linux on a server.

An article relating to an old troubleshooting favourite: the venerable lsof