Turnbull J. Hardening Linux

Apress, 2005. - 584 pages.James Turnbull is an IT&T Security Consultant at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. He is an experienced infrastructure architect with a background in Linux/Unix, AS/400, Windows, and Storage systems. He has been involved in security consulting, infrastructure security design, SLA & support services design, and business application support.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