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Alert Remediation Tips¶

Threat Monitoring alerts provide a great insight into your server(s) threat activity. Created with Threat Monitoring alerts in mind, these pages will provide some remediation steps, secure configurations and threat prevention tips, securing your servers from potential Threats.

Should a Threat Monitoring alert arise, you can always take a look at our Rules Explained documentation for more information regarding the alert(s). Furthermore, feel free to look into implementing some of our recommended threat mitigation tips documented below.

  • Blocking user-agents using htaccess (Apache)
  • Changing common service ports
  • Checking if an IP has been blocked
  • Page authentication and restrictions with htaccess
  • IP Based Allow listing
  • Disable remote login for accounts
  • Setting Secure Ciphers

Next Article > Blocking user-agents using htaccess (Apache)

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