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• Matt Ustilovsky
• Tags: fail2ban, iptables, linux protection, securty
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VPS Protection with fail2ban and iptables. The main tool in building the protection of a Linux VPS is the iptables firewall. The fail2ban utility also uses iptables to block packets from banned IP addresses and python to detect such addresses. For greater security, I recommend changing the standard SSH port to some exotic port. From this we begin....