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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m interested in learning more about how to implement a customer portal for an OpenStack installation, and would like to know specifically about how the customer portal is safe from would-be hackers when exposed in the wild. I don’t know if there are any additional measures I would have to add like perhaps my own login page with its own security to protect the management page, or if it comes with its own login system for example. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>How can I make the security of my VPS service a selling point when I’m using OpenStack for the backend?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mind you I don’t know anything about OpenStack yet, aside from what I see in videos on the OpenStack Foundation YouTube channel, and I haven’t seen anything addressing this issue as of yet. I don’t even know if OpenStack comes with a customer portal I can deploy or if I have to design one using the API.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I hope to have servers arrive this week which I can use to build prototypes of my production setup, where I can test hardening configurations. But I don’t know where to begin. All I can think of is fail2ban, and I don’t think that would apply in this case.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What can people tell me that would help me get a handle on this issue?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks in advance.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-Chris<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>