Re: Unix Security Standards, books, tools...

From: makaveli (m4k4v3l1@shellyeah.org)
Date: 12/12/01 

Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 21:08:36 -0500 (EST)
From: makaveli <m4k4v3l1@shellyeah.org>
To: Gurpreet Singh <gp@allindianet.com>

Bulding internet firewalls is a god book ?
Somebody here was read ?

thankz

Makaveli

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Gurpreet Singh wrote:

> Ryan,
>
> Which book are you referring to, is it 'Linux System Administration (Linux
> Library) -- Vicki Stanfield, et al' @
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0782127355/qid=1007982747/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_71_1/104-7388536-0962334.
>
> GP
>
> Ryan Anderson wrote:
>
> > I would recommend "UNIX System Administration Handbook" (aka the purple
> > book) as a pretty invaluable resource.
> >
> > -Ryan
> >
> > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, tony toni wrote:
> >
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > I recently was assigned the project of developing security standards for our
> > > Unix environment. We have about 400 unix box's (HP-UX, Sun Solaris, AIX,
> > > etc)and the admins do their *own thing* with these boxes.
> > >
> > > This is not a project I exactly like...I am buried with 20 other
> > > projects...and I am not Unix guru. For each Unix *flavor*, I need to develop
> > > Unix security standards that will cover areas like configuration settings,
> > > defaults, permissions, admin. account, password file, shells, trusts, root,
> > > patch's, logging, etc.
> > >
> > > These are my questions:
> > >
> > > (1) Does anyone know where I can quickly get my hands on some high quality,
> > > concise security standards/templates/checklists? for each Unix *flavor*?
> > >
> > > (2) What about good books/sites on Unix Security?
> > >
> > > (3) What about user friendly software tool(s) that I can periodically use
> > > to audit the Unix boxes for compliance to the new security standards I
> > > developed?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Tony
> > > IT Security Manager
> > > Major Telecommunications Company
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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