Home Office Server Security

[Lisa Kachold]

I agree with Stephen for encrypting your $HOME partition.

Further, if you ensure that SSH is off and/or use OpenVPN where needed,
your data should be secure.


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think Ubuntu server now has an LVM with encryption option. I personally
> would start there as i am likely to run an Ubuntu server
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Nathan England <nathan at nmecs.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello Hello,
>>
>> I will soon be building a new server for my home office. I do various
>> consulting jobs and have access to data that my customers consider highly
>> personal or private, some of which I've signed NDA's in order to have
>> access to. The current server stores my client data, various source code
>> files, but it also doubles as my personal data store. All my personal
>> projects along with videos and pictures, audio files and everything that
>> all of us parents and geeks would want to store.
>>
>> My new hardware will have multiple drives in a raid configuration. I have
>> not completely decided on how that will be configured. I would like your
>> opinions on the best methods of securing a server. I am not against having
>> to type in an encryption passphrase each time the machine boots, but as it
>> will be headless, I'd really rather not, but hoping beyond setup I will not
>> need to reboot it often it is an option.
>>
>> What options should I consider for protecting the data on the hard drives
>> and still provide some sane level of usability from a workstation somewhere
>> else?
>>
>> I appreciate your thoughts!
>>
>> Nathan
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