Save Ocs from outside attack

Question

Previously i have install ocs Inventory server in windows, but after some time i face problem with that, later we get to know that our server is hacked. Now i install OCS Inventory 2.5 in Ubuntu 16.04 and i complete installation of mysql and all. I want to protect my Server from outside attack can anyone please help me.

Answer 1

i can't recommend to use ocs-inventory with a direct outside connection, because there were several security vulnerables found in the past.

OCS-Inventory can be a popular target for outside hackers, because if the hacker hits the ocs-inventory server, he has controll of all your computers.

You can work with a vpn connection to access the ocs-inventopry server from outside, and all clients from outside also have to do this.

perhaps you can to something with a apache directive - but this is outside my competence

https://serverfault.com/questions/497297/is-it-possible-to-allow-only-some-client-certificates-in-apache-to-login

Kind regards

sokatra