Production-grade Security Baseline & Hardening Guide for Ubuntu 24.04/26.04 LTS. Kernel isolation, Emergency Panic Button, custom AppArmor/Firejail 0.9.80 and Bubblewrap, Rootless Docker, AIDE integrity checks, Lynis audits, and secure hardware (YubiKey/Ledger). 17 languages.
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An enterprise-grade, comprehensive guide dedicated to host-level hardening, operational security (OpSec), and digital self-defense. This project is localized into 17 languages to empower journalists, human rights defenders, and infosec professionals globally.
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This guide provides step-by-step instructions to transform a standard Linux distribution into a resilient, high-security workstation capable of mitigating advanced physical, supply-chain, and network-level threats. It focuses strictly on open-source solutions, host-level isolation, compliance verification, and radical reduction of the OS attack surface.
Hardware & Boot Hardening: Implementing strict bootloader password protection to mitigate Evil Maid attacks, enforcing pre-boot security standards, and establishing secure physical configuration lines.
DMA & Memory Protection: Kernel-level IOMMU programming (iommu.passthrough=0) to block malicious Direct Memory Access via Thunderbolt/USB4/PCIe interfaces, combined with low-level kernel tuning to eliminate memory data remanence.
Telemetry & Component Purging: Sanitizing the host completely via automated Bash scripting—purging built-in Canonical telemetry, completely disabling the Snapd ecosystem, and removing vulnerable print/discovery services (Avahi/CUPS).
System Integrity & Security Auditing: Deploying a cryptographic baseline for system files via AIDE (File Integrity Monitoring), hunting rootkits with Rkhunter, and validating the overall defensive posture using automated compliance stress-tests via Lynis.