Securing Debian Through System Administration Hardening Techniques
Creators: name: Ho, Chew Kean
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Debian
Operating System
Security
Sysadmin
Hardening
Techniques

description: Deploying a Debian operating system into the Internet as a service can be daunting at first since it can be compromised into a backdoor access point. Afterall, any server that exposes itself to the Internet is constantly under attack for intrusion and compromisation. Hence, the effort of hardening Debian operating system security is essential before exposing it to the Internet for offering its service. This can be achieved systematically using system administration hardening techniques. This paper first reviews the technique of approaching security for operating systems. This includes finding the research borderlines in order not to complicate the matters in hands. Then, the paper proceeds to explore all existing resources for hardening the Debian Operating System dated to this research paper. Lastly, the paper specifies the limitations of its efforts and what needs to be done for improving the hardening techniques.
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