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10 steps to a secure Linux server, part 1

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10 steps to a secure Linux server, part 1

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- Let's discuss how to secure your Linux server, and these 10 steps that I'm going to go over can be applied to just about any Linux distro out there. We're going to break this into two sub lessons, let's start now and talk about 10 steps to secure your Linux server. The first step is hardware and BIOS, and it shows in italics, "Set a complex password." So hardware and BIOS. Consider a locking server case and other physical locking features for your server and server room and server racks. Also, consider hardware redundancy. You want to make sure that your power supply units, your storage devices, and your network interface cards have redundant fault tolerance and backups, right? So network interface cards, usually, a server will have four of those and maybe you add additional ones, and as far as storage goes, you might use RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, and power supplies, quite often servers will come with two. So definitely look into hardware redundancy, and especially you want to have a…

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