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This is a very broad subject. Are we talking straight iptables, or ufw/firewalld or at the app level with selinux/apparmor. Or at the firewall level like opnsense/pfsense? Or on the router side ddwrt and tomato etc. You can grab certain distros on either side, whonix/tails on the blueteam side, kali on the red team side. There are hardened kernels like zen and securelinux. There's network security, but also kernel level stuff like run levels, tpm, uefi, etc.
My real question is who is the audience for this? What is their use case, what distro are they using? What is the proposed environment?
Problem 1: what tools do you choose?