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# 23 entries
Self-Hosted, Google-Free Phone Backup on Proxmox
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$ Self-Hosted, Google-Free Phone Backup on Proxmox

Built a private phone backup system in a hardened, unprivileged Debian 13 LXC on Proxmox with Syncthing and copyparty! Your data is yours alone. You deserve to choose where it’s stored, who it’s shared with, and how it travels over the internet.

ProxmoxDebian 13SyncthingcopypartyTailscaleLVM-thin
[ Self-Hosting ][ Hardening ][ Firewall ][ Zero Trust Access ][ Data Privacy ][ Backup & Versioning ]
Compliance Auditing & Automated Remediation with OpenSCAP
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$ Compliance Auditing & Automated Remediation with OpenSCAP

Audited a Rocky Linux 10 server against the CIS Level 1 benchmark with OpenSCAP, generated HTML compliance reports, and remediated only the failed rules through an auto-generated Ansible playbook, validated with a dry run and re-audited to measure before-and-after compliance.

OpenSCAPAnsibleRocky LinuxProxmoxSCAP Security Guide
[ Compliance ][ Hardening ][ CIS Benchmark ][ Auditing ][ Remediation ]
File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) with Wazuh
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$ File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) with Wazuh

Deployed Wazuh's syscheck for real-time file integrity monitoring over a Tailscale mesh, detecting unauthorized changes to critical files and directories through baseline comparison rather than signature matching.

WazuhXDRTailscaleFile Integrity Monitoring
[ Monitoring ][ Integrity ][ Endpoint Security ][ syscheck ]
Hardening macOS Against the CIS Benchmark with Wazuh
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$ Hardening macOS Against the CIS Benchmark with Wazuh

A hands-on walkthrough of reading, understanding, and manually remediating CIS benchmark findings on macOS. No MDM required.

WazuhXDRTailscaleCIS BenchmarksApple
[ Monitoring ][ Compliance ][ Endpoint Security ][ Hardening ]
Centralized Security with Wazuh, Proxmox, and Tailscale
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$ Centralized Security with Wazuh, Proxmox, and Tailscale

Deploying a Security Operations Center, monitoring my own infrastructure: a bare-metal hypervisor with Proxmox and cloud computing.

WazuhProxmoxSIEMTailscale
[ Monitoring ][ File Integrity ][ Endpoint Security ][ Hardening ]
Monitoring as a Security Control: UpTime Kuma
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$ Monitoring as a Security Control: UpTime Kuma

Architected a secure external uptime monitoring pipeline using self-hosted Uptime Kuma on Proxmox, leveraging SQLite for minimal attack surface and out-of-band Telegram alerts to ensure availability detection independent of monitored infrastructure.

Uptime KumaProxmoxTelegram APIBOTs
[ Monitoring ][ Alerting ][ Resilience ][ Availability ]
Resilient Bulk Email: Subdomain Isolation with MailerLite
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$ Resilient Bulk Email: Subdomain Isolation with MailerLite

Architected a bulk email infrastructure using subdomain isolation to protect primary domain reputation, with manually configured SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for full authentication control.

MailerLiteDNSSPFDKIMDMARC
[ Email Authentication ][ Reputation Management ][ Anti-Spoofing ]
Building a Technical Documentation Site with Zensical
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$ Building a Technical Documentation Site with Zensical

Self-hosted technical documentation built with Zensical, a fast static docs generator full data ownership.

ZensicalMarkdownPythonHTTP server
[ Data Ownership ][ Documentation ][ Configuration ]
Penetration Testing: Validating My Infrastructure Against SQL Injection with Exegol & SQLMap
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$ Penetration Testing: Validating My Infrastructure Against SQL Injection with Exegol & SQLMap

Offensive security simulation with SQL injection detection and vulnerability validation.

ExegolSQLMapOrbStackBash
[ Pentesting ][ SQL Injection ][ Ethical Hacking ]
DevSecOps: Automating Secure Deployments with GitHub Actions
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$ DevSecOps: Automating Secure Deployments with GitHub Actions

Automated security gates with secure deployment and CI/CD integration.

GitHub ActionsNode.jspnpmSSHrsyncCI/CD
[ Security Gates ][ Secure Deploy ][ Least Privilege ]