Security News > 2021 > October > How to use this unique method of securing SSH

Jack Wallen offers up a different method of securing SSH that could be rather timely in helping to lock down your Linux servers.

The other day I was thinking of ways to secure SSH that were a bit outside the norm.

Let's face it, we've all configured SSH in /etc/ssh/sshd config and /etc/ssh/ssh config.

We've blocked root login, we've set SSH to a non-standard port, we've installed fail2ban and we've enabled SSH key authentication.

That's where my train of thought sort of went off the tracks to come up with a non-standard method of blocking unwanted SSH traffic.

So why give anyone the ability to access your remote servers via SSH? Again, I know this sounds crazy, but for some servers, this could be an ideal way of blocking incoming SSH attacks at certain times.

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