Whether you are an experienced Security or System Administrator or a Newbie to the industry, you will learn how to use native, "out-of-the-box", operating system capabilities to secure your UNIX environment. No need for third-party software or freeware tools to be and stay secure! This book will help you ensure that your system is protected from unauthorized users and conduct intrusion traces to identify the intruders if this does occur. It provides you with practical information to use of the native OS security capabilities without the need for a third party security software application. Also included are hundreds of security tips, tricks, ready-to-use scripts and configuration files that will be a valuable resource in your endeavor to secure your UNIX systems.
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This review is from: Unix, Solaris and Linux: A Practical Security Cookbook: Securing Unix Operating System Without Third-Party Applications (Paperback)
It is practically impossible to find a good book with hands-on approach on information security. This book is one of the few that will show you HOW-TO secure your system and not just why you should do this! Also, security forensics chapter is my favorite... I recommend this book for anybody who is interested in UNIX and wants to know what could be done to protect the box using only OS bundled capabilities. As a security administrator for a company on a budget I get used to only rely on freeware or open-source tools to protect the enterprise. This book showed me that it is possible to use only out of the box solutions to achieve the same results! I would recommend it for everybody who is prohibited to use freeware and open-source tools for information security. Great book!
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This book is one of the best I've read about UNIX security. Dr. Loza provides hundreds of hands-on, practical solutions for how to investigate suspicious hackers' activities, secure the system, or protect you on the Internet by using only "native" UNIX capabilities. This book is very unique in the approach that shows you how one can do absolutely the same things to secure your UNIX box that freeware or open-source tools offer - if you are creative and hove some scripting skills. Using freeware and open-source applications is prohibited in many companies. This is why this book is absolutely the best! Especially I loved the Forensics chapter. Once again, I would recommend this book for all hackers and system administrators alike!
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I think that it's a good book. Straight to apply the main concepts of Solaris's security. Has been very helpful, especially for designing and implementing a security policy
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Real security begins from the moment you decide to set up a reliable and protected operating system. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
user boris, restricted shell account, xauth add, crontab file, separate file system, old log files, dst port, consult man pages, shell users, syslogd daemon, conf file, patch cluster, inode number, rhosts files, magic cookies, acl entries, login events, see man pages, tape blocks, inetd daemon, login file, root file system, static routing table, login shell, core files Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Boris Loza, Practical Security Cookbook, General Platform, Linux Platform, Wed Dec, Basic Security Module, Help Desk, Solaris Operating Environment, Sun Microsystems Inc, Mon Sep, Solaris Fingerprint Database, Mon Jun, Solaris Security Toolkit, Wed Apr, Generic May, Security Parameter Index, Tue Jun, Fri Dec, Log Management, Printer Management, Tue Jan, Wed Jun New!
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Boris Loza, Practical Security Cookbook, General Platform, Linux Platform, Wed Dec, Basic Security Module, Help Desk, Solaris Operating Environment, Sun Microsystems Inc, Mon Sep, Solaris Fingerprint Database, Mon Jun, Solaris Security Toolkit, Wed Apr, Generic May, Security Parameter Index, Tue Jun, Fri Dec, Log Management, Printer Management, Tue Jan, Wed Jun New!
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- Sun Microsystems by Vault Reports on 9 pages
- Computer Security (Understanding Computers) by Time-Life Books in Back Matter
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