With this in mind, Apress and James Turnbull have come together to publish Hardening Linux. Aimed at system administrators familiar with Linux, but not necessarily security, this book offers over 500 pages of securing techniques. While Hardening Linux comprehensively discusses everything from restricting compilers to mail servers to BIND, Turnbull admits, “No single book on security, even a book on the security of a single operating system, will ever answer all the security questions or address all the possible threats. This book is about providing risk mitigation and minimization.â€
Also realizing that one of the main challenges faced by system administrators is finding the balance between a user-friendly network and one that isn’t susceptible to attack, particularly for users accustomed to the freedoms associated with the Linux OS, Turnbull takes care to ensure that both users and system administrators will be satisfied with the hardening techniques presented. “The configurations and examples I provide are designed to ensure your Linux hosts are hardened against attack while not limiting the functionality available to your users,†says Turnbull.
Highlights of Hardening Linux:
• Balances usability and security for users and system administrators
• Contains multiple checklists at the end of each chapter
• Offers additional securing advice for many popular open source applications, including Samba, MySQL, Webmail, and Squid Proxy Server
• Applicable for users of Red Hat, Debian, Mandrake, and SUSE
To read more about Hardening Linux or the author, or to view a table of contents and sample chapter, please select this title in our online catalog at www.apress.com.
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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 and support services design, and business application support.
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Hardening Linux
James Turnbull
Published 7 February 2005 * ISBN: 1-59059-444-4 * $44.99 US * 584 pages”
