Ansible Setup In this article, I will walk you through setting up the Ansible Control server. In future articles,we will create Ansible playbooks to deploy Zero Trust Access (ZTA) principles acro...
A Simple Yet Scalable Approach Regular OS patching is a crucial part of maintaining cybersecurity, as it helps reduce the risk of zero-day vulnerabilities and other security issues by ensuring tha...
Introduction When working with multiple servers, SSH keys are indispensable for secure authentication. Early in my workflow, I relied on a single key pair reused across all systems. While convenie...
Cybersecurity In today’s world, cybersecurity is more critical than ever. Whether it’s adding new functionality, upgrading existing features, or auditing current systems, the question of how to en...
Proxmox Network Storage So far, we’ve utilized a Direct Attached Storage (DAS) and a Single Board Computer (SBC) to set up a NAS (Network Attached Storage) using Samba. The next step was securing ...
Proxmox: Network for NAS In the previous post, we completed the Samba server setup, though the network connection strategy was still in development. Now, it’s time to explore how the Samba server ...
When I imagine the future of my home lab, I envision it filled with professional-grade equipment—a sleek server rack, servers humming away, and network switches blinking behind a perforated door. H...
With the network and firewall rules configured, there are just a few final tasks to complete on the Samba server: Enhance Samba security Mount the DAS volumes on the server While this may s...
In today’s fast-paced, automation-driven environments, SSH traffic is the backbone of countless administrative and deployment tasks. From powerful tools like Ansible, rsync, and Terraform to contai...
Proxmox Security Series:SSH Through Firewall In my effort to find fresh ways to improve SSH security beyond the usual tips and tricks, I looked into using the OPNsense firewall—something I already...