Crafting a Balanced Patching Strategy Security, Risk, and Automation in Harmony Regular updates are essential to any cybersecurity model, ensuring that vulnerabilities are quickly patched to minim...

An Intro to systemd Timers When I first began using Linux, crontab was the go-to tool for scheduling tasks on Unix and Linux systems. Its flexibility in a single line of text was impressive, allow...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Automating and Securing SSH Configurations with a Custom Scrip When managing multiple servers on a daily basis, SSH authentication keys are invaluable. In the past, I would typically create a sing...

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...