Basic VPS hardening tips from Privex

I've been a long time @privex customer for their awesome VPS service. Awesome uptime and very reasonably positioned price. When I said awesome uptime, I mean zero downtime and in fact the only downtime I had was due to Privex schedule upgrade maintenance.

I was looking back at the old mails and found an interesting security tips by Privex upon the VPS distribution to me few months ago which I has been ignored. Some really basic but essential tricks to implement on one VPS for security hardening:

• Install fail2ban apt install fail2ban to block SSH brute force attacks
• Move your SSH port above 10000, this prevents SSH brute force attacks causing network problems
• Change your password using passwd
• Update your system with apt update and apt upgrade -y