Bulletproof your system before you are hacked! From the publisher of the international best-seller, Hacking Exposed, here is a brilliant new offering written with a passion for security that will help you make the necessary upgrades and take the essential steps to secure your Linux systems. The concise and consistent approach breaks down security into logical parts, giving you actions to take immediately, information on hardening your system from the top down, how to plan and maintain an interative security strategy and finally, how to navigate the soft issues of how to garner management and employee support for your security strategy. Features examples in the most frequently used enterprise Linux distributions, Red Hat Enterprise Server 3.0, SuSE SLES 8.1 and a sneak preview of SuSE SLES 9.0
Table of Contents

Part I: Do These 8 Things First:
Chapter 1: Check List of Items to Check First.

Part II: Take It From The Top: The Systematic Hardening Process
Chapter 2: Hardening Network Access – Shut Down Unnecessary Services
Chapter 3: Hardening System Accessibility – Install Firewalls and Filters
Chapter 4: Hardening Software Accessibility – Uninstall All Software that is Not Used
Chapter 5: Hardening the Kernel and Software – Install All Security Patches
Chapter 6: Hardening Access Controls – Validate File System Permissions
Chapter 7: Hardening Data Storage
Chapter 8: Hardening Authentication and User Identity
Chapter 9: Establish Chrooted Jails for Critical Applications
Chapter 10: Hardening Communications

Part III: Once is Never Enough!
Chapter 11: Install Network Monitoring Software
Chapter 12: Automatic Log File Scanning
Chapter 13: Patch Management and Monitoring
Chapter 14: Self Monitoring Tools

Part IV: How to Succeed at Hardening Linux
Chapter 15: Budget Acquisition and Corporate Commitment to Security
Chapter 16: Establishing a Security Campaign and Gaining User Cooperation

About the Author

John H. Terpstra (Draper, Utah) is CEO/President or PrimaStasys, Inc., co-founder of the Samba-Team, former VP Technology with Caldera, VP of Development for TurboLinux, and he serves on the Linux Standards Base (the body that sets the specifications for Linux), as well as the Linux Professional Institute Academic Council, responsible for reviewing LPI Certification Exam Questions for accuracy, relevance, and method.

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