Guides

Server security, written down properly.

Everything here comes out of building SwisserAC: measurements from real servers, research that changed our design, and the occasional finding that a widely repeated claim is not true. None of it requires our product.

Guide
Hardening a FiveM server: the configuration that does the most work

The FiveM server settings that remove whole classes of exploit before any anticheat is involved, what each one costs you, and how to keep the configuration from quietly drifting back.

8 min read
Guide
Securing FiveM server events: the checklist that stops most exploits

Every RegisterNetEvent is a function any player can call with any arguments. The five checks every server event needs, in the order they should run, with the failure each one prevents.

9 min read
Guide
How to find a backdoor in a FiveM script

The patterns that indicate a backdoored FiveM resource, how to audit an installed server, why most findings are innocent, and what to do when one is not.

8 min read
Research
HWID bans in FiveM: what is actually possible

Why FiveM resources cannot read hardware identifiers, what vendors are really selling when they advertise HWID bans, and what does make a ban persist.

7 min read
Opinion
False positives are what actually decide whether an anticheat survives

Why a wrongly banned player costs more than several missed cheaters, where false positives come from, and how a rule lifecycle keeps them measurable instead of anecdotal.

6 min read

Server security, written down properly.

Hardening a FiveM server: the configuration that does the most work

Securing FiveM server events: the checklist that stops most exploits

How to find a backdoor in a FiveM script

HWID bans in FiveM: what is actually possible

False positives are what actually decide whether an anticheat survives