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Linux Security Cookbook
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Computer security is an ongoing process, a relentless contest between system administrators
and intruders. A good administrator needs to stay one step ahead of any adversaries,
which often involves a continuing process of education. If you're grounded in
the basics of security, however, you won't necessarily want a complete treatise
on the subject each time you pick up a book. Sometimes you want to get straight
to the point. That's exactly what the new Linux Security Cookbook does.
Rather than provide a total security solution for Linux computers, the authors
present a series of easy-to-follow recipes--short, focused pieces of code that
administrators can use to improve security and perform common tasks securely.
The Linux Security Cookbook includes real solutions to a wide range of
targeted problems, such as sending encrypted email within Emacs, restricting access
to network services at particular times of day, firewalling a webserver, preventing
IP spoofing, setting up key-based SSH authentication, and much more. With over
150 ready-to-use scripts and configuration files, this unique book helps administrators
secure their systems without having to look up specific syntax. The book begins
with recipes devised to establish a secure system, then moves on to secure day-to-day
practices, and concludes with techniques to help your system stay secure.
Some of the "recipes" you'll find in this book are:
- Controlling access to your system from firewalls down to individual services,
using iptables, ipchains, xinetd, inetd, and more
- Monitoring your network with tcpdump, dsniff, netstat, and other tools
- Protecting network connections with Secure Shell (SSH) and stunnel
- Safeguarding email sessions with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
- Encrypting files and email messages with GnuPG
- Probing your own security with password crackers, nmap, and handy scripts
This cookbook's proven techniques are derived from hard-won experience. Whether
you're responsible for security on a home Linux system or for a large corporation,
or somewhere in between, you'll find valuable, to-the-point, practical recipes
for dealing with everyday security issues. This book is a system saver.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 1 Average Customer Rating: Aug 28, 2003 Mark Edmunds from Missouri
Get it!
Very handy for quickly constructing solutions to everyday security isses. Full of useful recipes!
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