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Network misconfigurations

Network misconfigurations

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Network misconfigurations

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- This first lesson is all about network misconfigurations. Let's start with configuration drift, which refers to the gradual and often unnoticed changes in systems configurations over time. To prevent this drift, we like to automate configuration management, use automation tools to manage configurations consistently across environments. This is going to reduce the risk of human error and make sure we have configurations that are consistent. We could use tools like Ansible, Puppet, and Chef. Those are all popular. Implement version control, use version control systems to track changes to configuration files. Here we get a history of changes. We can also allow for easy rollback or fallback if issues arise. Remember, we make small and incremental changes, not a bunch of large changes. We could use Git or Subversion. Our Git could be our own Git in our data center or server farm. We could use GitHub or we could do a Git, maybe AWS code commit. Regular audits and monitoring. Conduct these…

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