Here you will find all of my articles (including those that have cycled off of the home page) organized by subject.
Linux
You might notice that I have a proclivity towards CentOS. If you are interested in seeing a guide for another Operating System feel free to reach out to me and I will do my best to accomodate you.
Hardened CentOS6 LEMP on Linode
11th December, 2011 by Jaryd Malbin
This is a multi-part article on installing and configuring a hardened LEMP server on the Linode cloud. LEMP refers to a server running Linux, nginx (enginx x), MySQL, and PHP.
This guide assumes the reader has familiarity with the Linux shell, or is not afraid of diving right in. You will need a Linode account. Note: This guide will probably work fine (with minor tweaks) for a CentOS6 build on other platforms as well.
- Step 1: Preliminary Setup
- Step 2: Grsecurity
- Step 3: SSHD
- Step 4: nginx
- Step 5: PHP
- Step 6: IPTables
- Step 7: MySQL
OpenVPN on CentOS6
15th December, 2011 by Jaryd Malbin
This article will walk you through installing and configuring OpenVPN on CentOS6. This assumes you have a fair command of the linux shell. If not, you should be ready to google for clarification.

