I have everything I host and expose behind authelia (which requires 2fa) as middleware or as the only login method with oicd, thus far it seems to work well, of course I get a bunch of malicious traffic and spam but this gets to authelia and stops there, I don’t even see multiple tried login tries ever so I felt pretty safe. However it does seem that everyone uses either fail2ban or crowdsec in addition so I have been wondering if it would really add any security in my setup or if I’m missing something. I’m sure it wouldn’t hurt but crowdsec always seemed a little too complex for me and I don’t want something I don’t fully understand in my security layer and I never saw a nice way to setup fail2ban so never bothered. Afaik there’s no webui or such things and you have to manually make working regex for everything. I’d like to know if I’m missing something or if anyone has tipps to give
But I run a VPN on my phone by default, so I’d have to disconnect from that to access stuff on my home network (and remember to turn it back on after).
That’s why I’m planning on using mTLS until I get my router configured to direct my BTH VPN through the gateway I have running on my phone.
I just need to figure out how to get VLANs properly set up in Mikrotik without having to nuke everything and start from scratch.
I, too, run an always on VPN from my mobile devices. I can still access my home network with pihole and DNS entries to my services. It’s not that difficult. I agree though, mTLS is a good option.