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MENDOLA.TECH
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Security and uptime basics done right: access control, monitoring, backups, and recovery plans.
BASE: Florida, USAEMAIL: rob@mendola.tech

Infrastructure & Security Services

Networks Engineered for Uptime

Security and infrastructure work focused on uptime and risk reduction: hardening, monitoring, access controls, and recovery plans. Systems that stay online and keep data safe.

Security is a process, not a product. The goal is to reduce the likelihood and impact of common failures: weak access controls, missing backups, poor visibility, and ad-hoc server management.

This service is a fit for businesses that need to protect customer data, keep systems online, and avoid “single point of failure” setups. The emphasis is pragmatic: make the important things resilient first.

Security Hardening

Defense-in-depth hardening: secure access controls, least privilege, encryption in transit and at rest, and sane defaults. The goal is to reduce exposure without making daily operations painful.

Server Administration

Linux server setup, maintenance, and optimization. Configuration management, patching cadence, and monitoring. Stability comes from repeatability—servers should be built from code, not tribal knowledge.

Monitoring & Alerting

Observability that catches problems before customers do: logs, metrics, traces, and actionable alerts. Good monitoring answers “what changed?” and “what’s broken?” quickly, without guesswork.

Disaster Recovery

Backup strategies and recovery plans that are actually tested. When things go wrong, you should know how to get back online—what to restore, in what order, and what success looks like.

Access & Zero-Trust

Practical zero-trust patterns: VPNs, device posture, MFA, and segmented networks where appropriate. The goal is to make unauthorized access difficult while keeping legitimate work straightforward.

Technologies

LinuxWireGuardPrometheusGrafanaCloudflarefail2banLet's EncryptAnsible

What’s the most common security failure you see?

Weak access control and missing visibility. Unclear admin accounts, shared credentials, no MFA, and no monitoring make incidents hard to detect and harder to recover from. Tightening access and adding observability usually improves security faster than buying new tools.

Do you set up backups and recovery plans?

Yes, with an emphasis on actually testing recovery. Backups that can’t be restored aren’t backups. We define what needs to be backed up, how often, where it’s stored, and what the recovery steps are. The result is a plan that can be executed under pressure.

Can you help with monitoring and alerting?

Yes. Good monitoring is actionable and low-noise. We focus on alerts that indicate real user impact (downtime, error rates, disk pressure) and dashboards that help answer questions quickly. The goal is to detect issues early and reduce time-to-fix.

What does zero-trust mean in practice?

Practical zero-trust is least privilege, strong authentication, and segmentation where it matters. That can include MFA, VPNs, device-based access, and restricted admin paths. The objective is simple: make unauthorized access difficult while keeping legitimate work smooth.

Need secure infrastructure?

Let's discuss your project and see how I can help.

Or email directly:rob@mendola.tech