OK. This is all well and good but, what's out there for a Windows 2000
server guy like me hey??
Cheers!,
Micheal
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>
> The bad news...
>
> I hate to say this, but there are no easy solutions. Linux is tricky,
> because it is a hacked together (no pun intended) system to begin
> with. Open
> BSD is the most secure free UNIX out of the box...while Linux is not.
> Solaris and many of the pay-to-use UNIX systems are about 50%
> secure out of
> the box. You see, Linux...in particular Red Hat, has been designed with
> "ease-of-use" when it is shipped. This makes it very insecure.
>
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> again and see if your fixes hold. Then, you will want to setup more
> verbose/centralized logging (such as setting up another server as a Syslog
> server), and setup some type of log monitoring system that can
> alert you to
> suspicious activities (Swatch..). You will also want to setup a system
> binary watcher (Tripwire) or such to make sure that no one tampers in the
> future:) There are also some cool semi-free IDS systems out
> there....but it
> is not too hard to setup your own (Perl/shell). Also, check out
> some of the
> hack sites and sign up for Linux security newsletters.
>
> Whew.....good security is hard work:)
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