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requirements.

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Closes w3f#4881
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### Secure-Validator Mode

Parity Polkadot has a Secure-Validator Mode which enables several protections for keeping keys
secure. The protections include highly strict filesystem, networking, and process sandboxing, on top
of the existing wasmtime sandbox.

This mode is **on by default** if the machine meets the following requirements, and if not, there is
an error message with instructions on disabling Secure-Validator Mode.

#### Requirements

1. **Linux on x86-64**.
2. **seccomp enabled**. You can check that this is the case by running the following command:

```
cat /boot/config-`uname -r` | grep CONFIG_SECCOMP=
```

The expected output, if enabled, is:

```
CONFIG_SECCOMP=y
```

3. OPTIONAL: **Linux 5.13**. Provides access to even more strict filesystem protections.

## Monitoring Tools

- [Telemetry](https://github.com/paritytech/substrate-telemetry) This tracks your node details
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