Hardening Linux (Hardening) | 
 enlarge | Authors: John Terpstra, Paul Love, Ronald P. Reck, Tim Scanlon
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 869450
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.2 x 1
ISBN: 0072254971
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.8
UPC: 783254043619
EAN: 9780072254976
ASIN: 0072254971
Publication Date: May 11, 2004
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Condition: new book, may have remainder mark
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Product Description
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
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 Overall a respectable security reference for Linux sysadmins February 11, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
[I'm adding this review because as of this writing there are only two other reviews, and I am not sure either is particularly helpful.]
As someone else mentioned, some of the distro-specific implementation details in this book are indeed dated. But the key ideas are all here for one to build and implement a security plan, and that is what counts.
Covered are such basic concepts as: packet filtering, shutting off/removing unneeded services, disaster recovery, software management, and others. It's surprising to me how many folks I run into who don't understand these critical areas.
4 out of 5 stars: respectable Linux security beginner book with lots of (sometimes extraneous, occasionally outdated) information.
 Minimum skills required of review "writer"-->Valdez Ladd March 3, 2006
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
People in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks. One would expect people providing criticisms of written works have the ability themselves to construct at least a single grammatical sentence.
The "dating" of the book should come as no surprise to individuals who check what operating systems it covers before purchasing it.
 Hardening Linux September 28, 2005
6 out of 13 found this review helpful
This book is badly dated.
Worse it shows configs for new to Linux administrators and leaves the harder configurations missing time after time. No SELinux just cron, SSH, password and file permissions utilities.
Fortunately I brought both the Linux Troubleshooting Bible and the Network Security Bible. I recommend both for those starting Linux security administration.
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Center for Internet Security
Valdez Ladd
CCNA, CIW-SP, CCSA, CWNA, I-NET+
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