I am a nube to setting up Ubuntu, and I want to be sure that I setup a well-protected host.
It is allowed by Digital Ocean to run something like Metasploit penetration testing against my Droplet to help me ensure that I’m doing a reasonable job of configuring my firewall, and that I actually have the protection I think I have?
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