The really important distinction between OS for firewalls is how much you can lock it
down and in that respect Unix is better. Unless you are a very adept NT guru, locking
down NT is quite a difficult chore because it is hard to know the minimum services
needed to run for any situation. If you are a NT shop with good competent NT
sysadmins, go for NT. If you have both NT and Unix or Unix alone, go for Unix. It is
sysadmin competence rather than OS itself that really determines security.
The Sans Institute has documents for hardening Solaris, Linux and NT
(http://www.sans.org) so that is a good place to look.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Raymond
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 22:14
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Subject: Unix Vs NT Security Comparison
Hi,
I am looking for information on Unix Vs NT security comparison. I need this
information to decide what OS should be used for my firewall. Intrusion
statistics on these two platform will be very helpful.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Raymond
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