Fail2Ban is open-source intrusion prevention software used to protect your Linux system from different kinds of attacks. It is written in Python and works by monitoring the services logs for malicious activity. It scans all services’ log files and counts the number of failed login attempts. Whenever their number reaches a predefined threshold, Fail2ban will add extra IP table rules to block the source IPs.

In this post, we will show you how to secure an SSH server with Fail2Ban on Linux.

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Composer is a package management system and dependency manager for PHP. It checks your project requirements and installs all the required dependencies. Composer is a simple, reliable, and very useful tool that helps developers to manage and integrate packages and libraries into their PHP-based projects.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and use Composer on Ubuntu 20.04 server.

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AIDE is an advanced intrusion detection system that protects a system against viruses, rootkits, malware, and unauthorized activities. It is a host-based file and directory integrity checker that compares the system files information and attributes with a database initially created by AIDE. Whenever someone makes any changes to your system, AIDE compares the database against the real status of the system and reports it to you.

In this post, we will show you how to install and use AIDE on Debian 10.

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Wazuh is a free and open-source security monitoring tool that monitors security events at an application and OS level. It uses Elastic stack to visualize event data through a web-based interface. Wazuh allows users to search the security event data from the web browser. It offers a rich set of features including Intrusion Detection, File Integrity Monitoring, Log Data Analysis, Incident Response, Vulnerability Detection, and more.

In this post, we will show you how to install a Wazuh server on CentOS 8.

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OpenLiteSpeed is a free, open-source, and lightweight HTTP web server that is quickly growing in popularity throughout the world. It supports all major operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS. OpenLiteSpeed can handle thousands of concurrent connections with low resource usage. It provides a simple and user-friendly web interface that helps you to manage OpenLiteSpeed through a web browser.

In this post, we will show you how to install OpenLiteSpeed, MariaDB, and PHP 8.0 on Ubuntu 20.04.

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Lighttpd is a free, open-source, and lightweight web server known for its fast speed. It is simple and easy to install and it provides a web-based interface to control and manage the application.

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system that allows you to create a blog and website from a web-based interface. Installing WordPress with Lighttpd will increase the speed and performance of your website.

In this post, we will show you how to install WordPress with a Lighttpd web server on Ubuntu 20.04.

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