Slighty reduces your risk from all the automated spam. Most things that are scanning the entire internet trying to brute force weak passwords and stuff aren't trying 65,000 ports on each host. Any sort of worm/botnet will probably be in the same situation.
The only hosts we have with any SSH exposed to the world at all are a couple of bastion hosts. Day-to-day we access everything else through a VPN, so its only exposed at all as an emergency backup in case the VPN breaks. Really no inconvenience to having it moved to a high port.
The only hosts we have with any SSH exposed to the world at all are a couple of bastion hosts. Day-to-day we access everything else through a VPN, so its only exposed at all as an emergency backup in case the VPN breaks. Really no inconvenience to having it moved to a high port.