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Security and Backup Practices
Learn how to protect your Lightning funds, back up your node, and safely restore your channels.
Course length: 0 mins 4 secs
Passing score: 80%
The foundation of Lightning security covering seed phrase protection for on-chain funds, the necessity of channel state backups for Lightning funds, and disaster recovery planning.
A deep dive into Static Channel Backups including how the Data Loss Protocol works, step-by-step recovery procedures, automation strategies, and critical warnings about database restoration.
Protecting your Lightning node through physical security, network hardening with Tor, access controls, key management, watchtower configuration, and operational monitoring.
A comprehensive operational guide covering daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance routines, emergency procedures, documentation practices, and a maturity model for node operators.