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Published inApr 2024
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781837632152
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Rajneesh Gupta
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Rajneesh Gupta

Rajneesh Gupta is a seasoned cybersecurity professional with over 11 years of industry experience. With a remarkable career focused on incident response, penetration testing, security compliance, and risk management, Rajneesh has established himself as a leading expert in the field. He is also an accomplished author, having penned the book "Hands-on with Blockchain and Cybersecurity." As a dedicated educator, Rajneesh has made a significant impact on the cybersecurity community by training over 60,000 students globally.
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Blocking unauthorized SSH access

SSH attacks are among the most prevalent types of attacks against servers accessible via the internet. Automated bots that regularly monitor the internet for SSH servers with inadequate security setups carry out the major share of SSH attacks. Because attack sources are frequently scattered globally, with no single country dominating, it is a global cybersecurity threat. Organizational losses, data breaches, and compromised servers are all possible outcomes of successful SSH attacks. In this section, we will learn how to automatically block unauthorized SSH access to a victim’s machine.

We will learn about the following:

  • Lab setup
  • Setting up active response
  • Testing

Lab setup

In this lab setup, we require three things: an Ubuntu Server with a Wazuh agent installed, an attacker machine (Kali Linux), and, finally, our Wazuh server (we have used a Virtual Machine OVA file for Lab purposes only). The lab is designed as...

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Security Monitoring with Wazuh
Published in: Apr 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837632152

Author (1)

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Rajneesh Gupta

Rajneesh Gupta is a seasoned cybersecurity professional with over 11 years of industry experience. With a remarkable career focused on incident response, penetration testing, security compliance, and risk management, Rajneesh has established himself as a leading expert in the field. He is also an accomplished author, having penned the book "Hands-on with Blockchain and Cybersecurity." As a dedicated educator, Rajneesh has made a significant impact on the cybersecurity community by training over 60,000 students globally.
Read more about Rajneesh Gupta