Modern OpenSSH In-Depth: The Complete Secure Shell Guide for SSH Server Configuration, Key Management, Tunneling, SFTP File Transfer, and DevOps Automation. - Softcover

Ashor, Devlin

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798273413122

Publisher: Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

🔐 Modern OpenSSH In-Depth — build secure, reliable, and fast remote access from first login to enterprise scale.

🚦 Are you battling fragile SSH configs, outdated ciphers, or hard-to-trace incidents across Linux, containers, and Kubernetes?

🧩 If tutorials feel fragmented and policies keep drifting, you’re not alone.

✅ The truth: hardened OpenSSH with strong keys, MFA, least privilege, and smart automation is achievable on real teams and real deadlines.

➡️ That’s why I wrote “Modern OpenSSH In-Depth”, your practical companion to mastering secure access, fleet baselines, and zero trust patterns across servers, bastions, containers, and clusters. This is more than a technical manual—it’s your roadmap to reliable operations, faster incident response, and audit-ready evidence without slowing developers down.

🛡️ What you will master:

• sshd_config baselines, Match rules, and safe policy templates

• Strong ciphers, MACs, and key exchange with rotation strategy

• OpenSSH CA signing, principals, and trusted_user_ca_keys for scale

• Short-lived credentials, touch-to-approve, and expiry hygiene

• FIDO2 security keys, PAM MFA, and command restrictions that hold up

• SFTP chroot jails, SCP migration, per-user and per-group controls

• Tunnels that are actually safe: local, remote, dynamic, and reverse with least privilege

• Bastions and jump hosts with ProxyJump chains and session multiplexing

• Host certificates, enrollment workflows, and session recording with privacy guardrails

• Containers and Kubernetes: minimal images, debug pods, network policies, sidecar security

• Automation that sticks: cloud-init, Ansible roles, CI drift checks, secrets and vaults

• Monitoring and SIEM: structured logs, detections, evidence capture, and retention policy

🚀 Who it is for:

Platform and DevOps engineers, sysadmins, SREs, security teams, and motivated beginners who want clear steps, runnable examples, and production-grade results.

📈 Why now:

Stronger compliance expectations, wider attack surfaces, and distributed teams demand short-lived access, standard baselines, and provable controls—without killing developer velocity.

🔥 Stop patching SSH by guesswork. Build a secure, observable, automation-ready access layer today.

✅ Click “Buy Now” and ship a hardened, zero-trust OpenSSH practice with confidence.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798273413122
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 299