I have a number of servers, including a few on the home office network, that accept SSH connections. Even though they are serving on different (non-standard) SSH ports, there are regular attempts made to break it via brute-force – I can see how some random IP addresses start trying to log in using different standard user names. It's therefore never too late to use additional software for protecting SSH service, something like fail2ban.
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Attach Interface to Specific Firewall Zone in RHEL 8
One of the first things I had to do on my recently built RHEL 8 PC was to move the primary network interface from public (default) zone to home zone – to make sure any firewall ports I open stay private enough.
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