Leaving services' ports at their default values: convenience VS security

Re:Leaving services' ports at their default values: convenie... by nmaggioni on Friday June 24, 2016 @10:47AM (#11970151)

I wan't focusing on hardening a server, my point was avoiding simple random scans for the sake of log management. Maybe I've used the word "security" too lightheartedly?

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Re:Leaving services' ports at their default values: convenie... by stephenr on Friday June 24, 2016 @10:54AM (#11970220)

Fail2ban still solves that problem. A few entries with failed auth, and hey presto no more log entries because it's rejected by the firewall.

It's a well established pattern for brute force tools to not just try the default port, but perform a port scan to detect listening ports, and then try those.

Putting your services on other ports just makes things inconvenient for the user, nothing more.

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