🔐 Vault Minimal: When the System Whispers, We Harden

~ Tom's IT Cafe

Posted by DeadSwitch | The Cyber Ghost
“In silence, we rise. In the switch, we fade.”

“The system speaks in ports and packages. Listen close, or get breached.”

The silence has been broken, but not by noise – by intention.

Today, DeadSwitch drops the first ember of a fire that’s about to cleanse weak configurations off the face of your servers. Introducing Vault Minimal, the first strike in a collection of hardened Ansible roles forged for modern Debian and RHEL systems. Think of it as a digital purification ritual.

It strips away the unsafe, closes the obvious, and sharpens the edges of your Linux estate.

🔒 What is Vault Minimal?

Vault Minimal is the foundational hardening pack. It’s for those who understand that prevention is louder than panic. It’s modular, clean, and fully tangle-ready from Emacs org-mode.

Core features:

  • 🚫 Removes known unsafe packages like telnet, rsh, ftp, and their ilk.
  • ⚙️ Applies secure system-wide defaults—kernel params, SSH settings, and more.
  • 🧼 Cleans legacy noise that bloats the baseline and attracts scanners.
  • 🔍 Designed to be readable, auditable, and reversible. Because the true ghost leaves no mess.

If it’s not secure by default, it’s not in your system after Vault Minimal runs.

🧠 Why it matters

Most systems aren’t hacked through wizardry – they’re compromised through neglect. Vault Minimal is for those who don’t sleep on defaults and don’t trust the factory.

It’s fast. It’s surgical. And it’s built the DeadSwitch way – silent, resilient, elegant.

🫥 Ghost Compliance Incoming

You didn’t think we’d stop here, did you?

Ghost Compliance is stirring beneath the fog. A possible follow-up to Vault Minimal, it will define a practical compliance framework – lightweight, effective, and ghost-approved.

Forget bloated checklists. Think actionable compliance for those who actually defend systems.

📦 Coming Soon

Vault Minimal will be released under the DeadSwitch Ansible Vaults series. Details will be whispered when the network quiets.

If you want your systems hardened like they were prepped for digital war, stay close.
When Vault Minimal drops, the game changes.

DeadSwitch | The Cyber Ghost
“Fear the silence. Fear the switch.”

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