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How do you secure your home lab? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Ok_Plate_6961@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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Started off by

Enabling unattended updates
Enable only ssh login with key
Create user with sudo privileges
Disable root login
Enable ufw with necessary ports
Disable ping
Change ssh default port 21 to something else.

Got the ideas from networkchuck

Did this on the proxmox host as well as all VMs.

Any suggestions?

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[–] wallacebrf@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

None of my services are available outside my house without first logging into the fortigate SSL VPN. That is the only open port I have.

The SSL VPN uses a loopback interface so only IPs from the US can access it, and I have strong auto block enabled and I add IPs of systems that try brute forcing into the box so they get blocked

I did forget to mention that I use cloud flair already for the exact reason you mentioned so my home IP is not used.

I also have a domain name with valid wildcard certificate. The domain is used to access the SSL VPN and I also then use the cert within my entire homelab so I have everything encrypted

I was not a fan of PF sense, the fortigate has more security features that I wanted

[–] zR0B3ry2VAiH@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Pretty cool man, thanks for sharing.