I know this isn’t what you’re looking for, but I got a family plan from Google for music and split it with 6 family members, which is probably the same as apple music I assume.

I don’t have to mess with download anymore.

Lidarr is only one I know.

Is that a pickup line? Lol

I have the older Sophos utm, which doesn’t use the Sophos cloud central manager.

I think their new firewall utm can work disconnected, but I don’t know.

Sophos has a home use license that’s free for non business use.

I love companies that do community edition or free home use.

Sophos, Veeam has nfr, Elastiflow has community edition, which is a netflow.

Sorry for confusion. I use Sophos utm as a WAF for exchange. Basically reverse proxy that is specifically programmed for exchange attacks. It allows OWA to keep working.

I put the exchange admin URL behind authentication, so you try to go to /ecp, it Sophos intercepts and make you authenticate to Sophos utm first, which is passing to ad with radius.

MS got rid of intune on prem. It’s only Azure service now. I think.

My router is my biggest vuln. Oddly the most important. It’s an enterprise ISR. It’s updated as far as possible. My paranoia ends with the US gov/NSA. I don’t care if they want back door oddly. I don’t want China using me for attack relay however.

Loads of monitoring. You do a span/mirror port to your IDS like security Onion. Let it analyze all your traffic. Apparently there are some state sponsored exploits that allow them to owe a router at kernel level and hide their activities from you and monitoring, but that’s a level I can’t deal with.

As far as lock out, you create a break glass on everything. Emergency account with non rememberable ridiculous password, saved in a safe place.

1. Exchange on prem 😳
2. Both mdm,.Ms intune, and just installing the root cert manually in trusted store. You don’t have to root Android for that. It presents some warnings, appropriate.
3. My Sophos is self contained. It does radius against active directory. It wants IPS and other updates though.

I guess the firmware is as good as possible. All network devices are just computers and can be exploited. I use a Cisco router as my actual gateway. Sophos is inline after that.

Privacy. 🤔

Not much. I have certain traffic go through a VPN to the Internet, but that’s split tunneled.

I use incognito? That doesn’t really do anything, ha.

I’m slowly killing web browser tracking and cookie stuff that group policy allows.

Your working environment sounds gross :)

IT is hard. Finding good IT people is harder in my opinion. Working for a company that is not super squared away with good security and great usability sucks. At least you found some work arounds and are trying to do it well.

Ha, probably. It’s fun to learn stuff though.

Working in this field, almost every company has been beached, IP stolen, etc.

Sometimes your home IP gets hit in an automated scan for a vulnerability and then auto exploited by automation. I’m hoping not to get random chance added to a botnet.

Also laughing because that’s how some companies get owned, IP stolen, etc.

There has to be balance, if your life using their system sucks so hard you can’t do your job or meet production marks, you get creative.

My industry has to prioritize security over productivity. It’s almost impossible to get work done.

Ha yeah.

Id say the same for trellix.

You should try doing things with installs or updating apps when the edr product blocks write access to all temp locations. You have to do an exclusion for every installer, signing cert, or turn it off to install programs.

I’m an enterprise guy, so that’s the explanation for non home use things.

• VPN for anything not my web or certificate revocation distribution point
• Sophos IPS
• sophos utm for web application firewall
• transparent inline web proxy, sophos is doing https inspection. I have internal CA and all clients trust it. I don’t inspect medical or banking, other common sense stuff.
• heavily vlan segmented with firewall between
• my windows clients are managed by active directory with heavy handed GPOs.
• least priv accounts, different accounts for workstation admin, server, domain, network devices
• security Onion IDS
• separate red forest that has admin accounts for my management access and accounts on devices
• trellix antivirus and global reputation based file monitoring
• I’ve started applying disa STIGs on servers
• site to site VPN with other family member household. They get managed trellix av also.
• my public identity accounts like MS,.Google, etc all need 2fa, token, etc.

I bet this can still get exploited, just would take effort hopefully none does for a home network.

I’m still one shitty windows zero day click away from getting my workstation or browser tokens owned though, I can feel it.

Doesn’t tailscale retain closed source for the coordination server?

I think nebula mesh is totally open and you can run your own coordination server, lighthouse?

Nebula would need static IP, TS can do that part for $

You’re correct about vlan.

Think of vlan is a regular switch. Connect stuff, they communicate. Make two vlans in a switch, think of turning your physical switch into two separate switches.

Connect you switches to a router. Don’t want to waste two cables from your switch that’s cut in half? Do trunk port, with vlan tagged.

Lots of videos will explain better.

Best practice is to separate things of different trust levels into different vlans. You can filter and control the traffic between those vlans with your router.

As previously mentioned, in the Enterprise and business world, best practice is to separate and management from VMS and applications. We call this data plane and control plane. You would restrict access to your proxmox for other hypervisor interface from the VMS and applications. For small home setups and funsies, this gets a little complicated, but if it’s your career choice or interest, it’s a good thing to explore.

Key terms you can research: data plane, control plane, out of band management, air gapped.

Yeah, salt has SSH support and it supposed to be able to deploy without minion/target interaction, but it wasn’t very reliable or I was doing it wrong.

I started with SALT because of Security Onion, open source IDS. Only reason.

SALT can run master less, is that what you were after? Rather than having a single/central manager?

I really enjoy these type of conversations, learn a lot.

Since you’ve gotten lots of good advice on container manager, I’ll encourage your desire for IaC/DevOps CM, etc.

I believe all the leading CM choices support what you’re wanting to do. I can’t guide you on which one to chose, but just browse through the options or functions your favorite does for the Kx container solution you go with.

I use SALT because of Security Onion, and open source IDS. I have all my nix systems being babysat by SALT, and can have a new x-arr media server, NGINX, blog, etc running in the amount of time to deploy the template (I use vSphere) and salt applies the desired state. Back up and restore a mount folder, np. IaC is only limited by your imagination. I have salt also specifying all the containers I have running, defining the config files, etc. Basically poor mans/simpleton kub.

I suspect you already know this, but if there isn’t a module that directly does what you want like running SQL specific functions, you can just have it run programmatic CLI files on the host, or in the container for you.

I am in the process of moving my IaC code from manager file system to Gitlab. I imagine you’d do this from jump street. Have fun.

PRTG has a community edition Elastiflow for netflow has free/community edition Grafana and influxdb open source

You’re on the right track. As long as wiregurd on the VPS will allow an incoming connection from you home 4g, which will probably be CGNAT, it’ll work. Did you look into running the NGINX reverse on the VPS? I like terminating external stuff on cloud side, then only bring filtered or desired traffic over the tunnel.

Nice. Yeah, keeping in mind Google/Microsoft have their algorithm/ad stuff going through your messages, we usually just count on them not committing fraud directly against us :)

SimpleLogin

So people must also acknowledge and agree that the solution can read their messages. I guess your use case is junk mail. If OP is looking for an external email for regular use, this might not be a good solution?

Very interesting. How long have you used this? Has it been reliable the whole time?

What about using symlinks?

You creat a directory /media. Mount shares there. Your media application scans /media and just finds media files.

Still sucks because you have to mount each repo, /media/person1/movies, etc

But you don’t have to reconfigure media app anymore.

I don’t know what a pooled remote file system like what you’re wanting.