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When I first started my homelab journey, I didn’t think much about securing the services I was deploying. I was more concerned with getting the thing to work more than anything else. As I grew more confident wrangling the applications into doing what I wanted, I started to look for other areas I could improve my skills and the fruits of my labor.
Even though I’ve been interested in cybersecurity since early college, I hadn’t applied that part of my brain to the homelab part of my brain.