Armoring Linux | Linux Today

Armoring Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 9, 1999

Thanks to Julian
Coombes
for this link.

“Organizations throughout the world are adopting Linux as their
production platform. By connecting to the Internet to provide
critical services, they also become targets of opportunity. To help
protect these Linux systems, this article covers the basics of
securing a Linux box. The examples provided here are based on Red
Hat 5.x, but should apply to most Linux distributions.”

Read Armoring
Linux
.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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