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Interested? Send an email to Spark! Pro series – 8th April 2022 Spiceworks Originals In this series, we take questions that may be difficult for you to bring up in public and ask the Spiceworks Community on your behalf to give you the anonymity you want to find the answers you need. Dear SpiceRex: Loyalty and Guilt over Job Possibilities Spiceworks Originals.It is amazing at how many attempts are made and have miserable failure to other services. It is far better to deny then allow, having rouge traffic from unwanted countries is not good. I use a site to harvest the unwanted ip ranges to all servers, they have no business accessing anything. I never setup a public facing web/mail/service_offering without adding in my extra ipchain's blocking unwanted traffic. Scripts are useless since they normally point them from an exploited server and try to bring your mail servers down, it all gets dropped along with other rouge ip ranges from over-seas. Even if they continue to work at it, after a specific interval they get dropped. Once they find out it is futile to try to make connections and/or dos the server is a waste of time they go away. No normal connection is going to be hitting the server within a specified time interval. This was the best thing I have done, I have a separate chain with allowed exempted ip's such as front-ended spam appliances, only. The good thing with rate-limiting connections is even with scripted attacks, bot-networks it trips up and garbage traffic gets dropped. Also, you can disable passwords and use the ssh keys.
I create a group for ssh users, add it in the sshd_config, disable root, X windows stuff, and some other security settings. I normally change ssh to a higher level port number, setup an ipchain's to rate-limit connection attempts on open ports, whether it be ssh, pop3s, smtps, ftps ect.