Hardening Linux
By: James Turnbull.
Series: The expert's voice in open source
Publisher: Apress; Distributed to the Book trade in the United States by Springer-Verlag
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 552
Subjects: Linux device drivers (Computer programs); Computer security.; Operating systems (Computers); Software maintenance.; Computer networks -- Security meaasures.
Notes: "Learn how to quickly secure your Linux hosts and applications against attack."--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1: Hardening the basics; title: Chapter 2: Firewalling your hosts; title: Chapter 3: Securing connections and remote administration; title: Chapter 4: Securing files and file systems; title: Chapter 5: Understanding logging and log monitoring; title: Chapter 6: Using tools for security testing; title: Chapter 7: Securing your mail server; title: Chapter 8: Authenticating and securing your mail; title: Chapter 9: Hardening remote access to e-mail; title: Chapter 10: Securing an FTP server; title: Chapter 11: Hardening DNS and BIND; title: Appendix A: The bastion host firewall script; title: Appendix B: BIND configuration files; title: Appendix C: Checkpoints.