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Hardening public-facing services

Hardening public-facing services - Linux Tutorial

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Hardening public-facing services

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Welcome back to Cybrary's Linux Hardening course. In this lesson, we'll discuss securing of public-facing services. I'm your instructor, Corey Holzer. Let's begin. We have two learning objectives for this lesson. First, we will discuss the importance of redirecting plaintext communications to encrypted pathways. Next, we'll discuss the importance of closing unused ports. When I started working in web development 23 years ago, only banks and straight to consumer sites for purchasing used encrypted communications. And on those sites, it was often limited to the actual payment process. Today, we receive a warning from our browser if we're visiting a site through an unencrypted channel. So you can see how important the use of encryption for communications has become. Web servers like Apache and Nginx can be configured to handle that fast-forwarding from an unencrypted connection to an encrypted one. Moreover, sites employing database servers can and should employ an encrypted connection…

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