NewsForge: Bastille Linux Update: Hardening the OS with Help from Uncle Sam

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 20, 2005

[ Thanks to Jay
Beale
for this link. ]

“NF: You mentioned recently that Bastille Linux has been
under major development — please talk a little bit about what is
happening.

“Beale: Until today, Bastille could only harden
or “lock down” systems. It did this by deactivating unnecessary
operating system components and better configuring the ones that
remained. It took proactive steps to make a system harder to
compromise, reducing the probability that the next item in the
attacker’s toolkit will be successful against your system…”

Complete
Story

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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