Home server security
Introduction#
Home server security is pretty often overlooked from what I can tell. Any device accessible from the internet has some degree of vulnerability in the current era of the internet. I aim for this document to detail methods to amend the contemporary cybersecurity challenges faced by most homelabbers.
Justification in Depth#
Of course, my statements about home servers needing some security measures put in place aren't baseless. My own experience, as well as that of a sizable number of people on the wonderful lemmy community at selfhosted@lemmy.world
shows that home servers are endlessly 'knocked" on, and that login attempts to services like SSH are made. Here's a snippet from my fail2ban filter to verify this point:
Mar 29 14:38:13 icefall fail2ban.filter[1097]: INFO [...] Found 176.126.240.158 - 2024-03-29 14:38:13
+Home server security Home server security
2024-03-28Introduction#
Home server security is pretty often overlooked from what I can tell. Any device accessible from the internet has some degree of vulnerability in the current era of the internet. I aim for this document to detail methods to amend the contemporary cybersecurity challenges faced by most homelabbers.
Justification in Depth#
Of course, my statements about home servers needing some security measures put in place aren't baseless. My own experience, as well as that of a sizable number of people on the wonderful lemmy community at selfhosted@lemmy.world
shows that home servers are endlessly 'knocked' on, and that login attempts to services like SSH are made. Here's a snippet from my fail2ban filter to verify this point:
Mar 29 14:38:13 icefall fail2ban.filter[1097]: INFO [...] Found 176.126.240.158 - 2024-03-29 14:38:13
Mar 29 14:40:11 icefall fail2ban.filter[1097]: INFO [...] Found 176.126.240.158 - 2024-03-29 14:40:11
Mar 29 14:40:29 icefall fail2ban.filter[1097]: INFO [...] Found 185.8.165.204 - 2024-03-29 14:40:29
Mar 29 14:40:40 icefall fail2ban.filter[1097]: INFO [...] Found 162.212.154.58 - 2024-03-29 14:40:40