📢 Release Note: Lordmoritz Fortify v1.0.0

Lordmoritz Fortify v1.0.0

Release Tag: v1.0.0

Overview

Lordmoritz Fortify is a professional-grade automation script for Ubuntu VM security hardening, healing, and monitoring. This is the first public release, delivering a fully unattended, intelligent fortification solution for cloud VMs, production servers, and private infrastructures.

Designed by Chinonso Okoye (Lordmoritz/Gentmorris/Gentzycode) to enable professionals to achieve security compliance and operational resilience without manual intervention.

🚀 Key Features

• Automated Security Tools Installation:
  • ClamAV (malware scanning)
  • RKHunter (rootkit detection)
  • Fail2Ban (intrusion prevention)
  • UFW (firewall)
  • AIDE (file integrity)
  • Unattended-Upgrades (automatic security patches)
• Firewall hardening with UFW and SSH lockdown
• Scheduled nightly security scans (malware, rootkits, filesystem integrity)
• Fail2Ban auto-healing for database corruption
• AIDE database initialization and finalization
• Canonical Livepatch recommendation for zero-downtime kernel patching
• Automatic cron setup without duplicates or conflicts
• Detailed logs at /var/log/security-reports/

🔥 Improvements Over Internal Versions

• Safe fallback and retries for critical package installations
• Adaptive behavior for low-resource VMs (--skip-heavy-scans option)
• Modular AIDE configuration for cron-safe initialization
• Color-coded logs for easier review
• Optimized minimal footprint (low system load)
• Automatic UFW/SSH resilience (prevents lockouts)
• Smart AIDE exclusions for volatile directories (/proc, /sys, /dev)

🛠 Installation & Usage

New Installation

git clone https://github.com/gentzycode/lordmoritz-fortify.git
cd lordmoritz-fortify
bash INSTALL.sh
lordmoritz fortify me

Upgrade Existing

1. Navigate to your installation directory:

cd /path/to/lordmoritz-fortify

2. Pull the latest changes:

git pull origin main

3. Re-run the installer:

bash INSTALL.sh
lordmoritz fortify me

Monitoring Logs

tail -f /var/log/security-reports/latest.log

View All Commands

lordmoritz --help

📋 System Requirements

• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / newer
• Root privileges
• Minimum 1GB RAM (2GB recommended)
• 10GB disk space

📈 Roadmap (v1.1.0)

• Multi-distro support (Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux)
• Systemd service monitoring & auto-recovery
• Pre-hardening backup option
• Self-update command: lordmoritz upgrade me
• Enhanced email alerting
• Cloud-init integration

📜 License

MIT License - Free for commercial and personal use.

© 2025 Chinonso Okoye (Lordmoritz/Gentmorris/Gentzycode)

⚠️ Notes

• For production environments, always test in staging first.
• Report issues at GitHub Issues.