Tips for securing your SSH server
Conclusion
Securing an SSH server is always a big challenge for IT professionals. Despite every precaution, sometimes servers get hacked. Since intruders adopt different methods to attack servers, you similarly have to adopt different methods to make your server secure. This article has discussed several steps for securing SSH servers, including public key encryption, whitelisting and blacklisting, changing the default SSH port, setting the password tries limit, and adding two-factor authentication. See the "System Hardening" article elsewhere in this issue for more on configuring your Linux server to face the perils of the Internet.
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