Security Hardening - Plesk 11.5 on CentOS 6

[Bluedog]

Hi,

I just started with CentOS and Plesk and I am trying to setup everything to be secure as much as possible And I would like to ask you if you can share some tips and tricks with me.
Because I am not sure if firewall at Plesk is secure enough or do I have to install fail2ban and IPtables etc.

Thanks a lot for any tips.

 

[InderS]

Hello,

I will suggest you install following plugin on your server in the security purpose

Install CSF/APF firewall
Install LMD (Linux Malware Detect )
And mod_security

 

[abdi]

ClamAv anti-virus + ClamScan (malware detection) are great tools too ..

 

[atomicturtle]

Check out Atomic Secured Linux, a security suite designed for Plesk environments (we are the founders of Plesk!). https://www.atomicorp.com/products/asl.html

We also have a number of security application available in the Atomic repo, including the openvas vulnerability scanner. I highly recommend it for verifying your security controls.

 

[Bluedog]

Hello,

I will suggest you install following plugin on your server in the security purpose

Install CSF/APF firewall
Install LMD (Linux Malware Detect )
And mod_security

Thanks for the tips! I just need to setup CSF correctly

 

[InderS]

Yes, Install CSF and configured it correctly on your server

With the LMD you can scan your users website through command prompt, Maldet is a good scanner for the shell scripts scanning and through mod_sec you can prevent lot of web attack and sql injection