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If you're worried about that, it probably shouldn't be publicly accessible in the first place. Yes, moving ports helps, but it's not a real defense. It just lo
by thirsteh 13y ago
If you're worried about that, it probably shouldn't be publicly accessible in the first place.
Yes, moving ports helps, but it's not a real defense. It just lowers bandwidth costs and prevents some not-so-harmful attacks (from people who don't know whether what they've compromised has any value.)
At the very least, use public-key authentication instead of password authentication for SSH.
- erichurkman 13y agoOne nice side bonus to moving to non-standard SSH ports? Your log files are a lot less noisy.
- ck2 13y agoYou then also can easily detect bad behavior by watching failed connect attempts to port 22.