Why We Should Mitigate SSH Based Attack SSH (Secure Shell) is a most popular remote protocol. SSH allows remote login and execute commands. That providing secure way to login and run commands on remote systems in unsecured networks. Telnet replace with SSH cause of offering more security. But SSH has some weaknesses, in order to reducing SSH based attack, those weaknesses can be mitigated. There is some hardening tips, the tips turn your SSH server into a rock solid communication daemon. Best SSH Hardening Tips In the next minutes, we’ll review 15 solutions from best SSH hardening tips. Each hardening tip will a shield against SSH based attacks. Most of the tips are SSH configurations, some of those tips are different on Linux distributions, so please check the configurations on your distribution documents as well. Also Windows 10 and Windows 2019 have OpenSSH server by adding Win32-OpenSSH to Windows, so read Microsoft documents as well. You must restart SSH server daemon after applying configurations. 1. Custom SSHÂ Port SSH server listening on port 22 by default, so attackers trying to attack your server on port 22. Changing SSH port to another port is a solution to reduce attacks. In order to change...
