Zero Trust

Let me start by painting a picture for you—one that I’m sure many of you can relate to. You’ve got a new project on the horizon, a tight deadline, and the need to spin up a handful of temporary servers just to get things off the ground. Maybe it’s a quick proof of concept, or perhaps it’s a staging environment where you’ll be running tests for the next week or two. Sounds simple enough, right? But if you’re anything like me, this is where the headaches start. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve found myself in this exact scenario. I need those servers up and running, accessible from wherever I am, but the last thing I want to do is expose them that easily to the internet for management. We all know the drill—open ports are just invitations for trouble, and managing access to these servers quickly becomes a rabbit hole of security groups, firewall rules, and SSH key management, VPN's (I've done crazy stuff as adding PortKnocking and configuring each server indivudually). Before