Linux System Security An Administrator's Guide to Open Source Security Tools

Lock down your Linux system NOW!Up-to-the-minute security techniques for your entire Linux environment!NEW! In-depth coverage of Bastille, the breakthrough Linux lockdown tool!NEW! Intrusion detection with network sniffers and port scannersNEW! Complete coverage of the OpenSSH encryption suiteFirewalls, email, Web services, filesystems, applications, and moreCompletely updated for RedHat 7.2Now there's an up-to-the-minute, hands-on guide to using open source tools to protect any Linux system! Completely updated for the newest tools and distributions, Linux System Security, Second Edition covers virtually every facet of Linux security, from firewalls and intrusion detection to authentication and secure Web services. You'll master over a dozen crucial open source security tools, including sudo, portmap, xinetd, tiger, tripwire, ipchains, pam, crack, and more. Along the way, three long-time Linux sysadmins will show you the "gotchas," rules of thumb, and undocumented tricks it would take you years to learn on your own!Preparing Linux systems for a production environmentUsing Bastille to lock down Linux systems without unnecessarily compromising their functionalityCombatting Trojan horses, backdoors, password cracking, buffer overflows, spoofing, DoS, and moreOpenSSH: eliminating eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other network-level attacksDetecting intrusions with network sniffers and port scannersFirewalls, email, Web services, filesystems, applications, and much moreProtecting mixed Linux/UNIX(r) environmentsIncludes a concise introduction to security policiesWant the benefits of Linux without the security risks? Get Linux System Security, Second Edition!Prentice Hall Series on Computer Networking and Distributed Systems, Radia Perlman, Series AdvisorMann, Scott is the author of 'Linux System Security An Administrator's Guide to Open Source Security Tools', published 2002 under ISBN 9780130470119 and ISBN 0130470112.