Security & Risk
Web Server Security Hardening
Strengthen Nginx or Apache across TLS, headers, methods, proxies, rate limits, permissions, logging, and origin protection.
The web server is an important boundary between the internet and applications. We reduce exposed information, constrain risky behaviour, and strengthen proxy paths without disrupting business function.
When this service is needed
- A website or API is directly exposed to the internet.
- TLS, headers, methods, uploads, and proxies have not been reviewed.
- The origin is discoverable or accessible without edge protection.
- Logs do not support investigation and alerting.
Scope
- Virtual-host, module, route, upstream, file, and permission review.
- TLS protocols, ciphers, certificates, HSTS, and redirect policy.
- Security headers, methods, body sizes, timeouts, and directory exposure.
- Rate limits, connection limits, allowlists, denylists, and error handling.
- Reverse-proxy trust, real client IP, origin protection, and admin paths.
- Access and error logs, alerts, tests, exceptions, and rollback.
Security methodology
- Scope and baseline: establish assets, access, exposure, and business function.
- Assessment: collect evidence and validate conditions.
- Prioritisation: evaluate likelihood, impact, effort, and dependencies.
- Remediation: introduce change with backup, checkpoints, and rollback.
- Verification: retest and retain closure evidence.
- Handover: deliver risk registers, exceptions, and maintenance guidance.
Deliverables
- Baselines and validated findings.
- Risk ratings and a prioritised remediation plan.
- Change, exception, and rollback records.
- Retest evidence and control-maintenance guidance.
Intended outcomes
The web server gains defensive configuration, better origin protection, and stronger visibility into suspicious activity.