Real World
Linux Security:
Intrusion Prevention, Detection and Recovery
2nd Ed.
Bob Toxen October 2002
Foreword by Eric Raymond.
Cover quote by Steve Bourne.
Drawing on his 28 years of Unix experience, Bob Toxen has
authored THE authoritative reference on securing your Linux or Unix based
infrastructure. In the security business, 80% solutions are
simply
not good enough. Covered are the 7 most deadly sins that every
administrator needs to avoid. Unlike most books in the genre, RWLS
addresses what to do after you've been cracked in great detail
as well as how to prepare for this so that recovery will be much quicker.
The first edition received the highest ratings when reviewed
in Linux Magazine, Linux Journal, Information Security Magazine,
Login Magazine (the flagship publication of Usenix), all Amazon
and Fatbrain readers, and many web sites.
One of the book's most innovative solutions to security problems, "Adaptive
Firewalls", allows the system to detect intrusion attempts
and lock the cracker out permanently without human intervention.
It was developed by the author and is included on the companion
CD-ROM, along with other security measures like "The Deception
Toolkit", Tripwire, Bob's substantially enhanced logcheck,
portsentry, hostsentry, Ethereal, snort, pinglogger, tcpdump,
sniffit, nessus, nmap, and many more.
The book explains how to have the system page you if it is
being attacked. It how to automatically detect very quickly
if your web pages have been altered of if it is under DoS or
DDoS attack no matter how the system was compromised. It gives
the secrets of recovery in 5 minutes, hardening Apache, Sendmail,
and Netscape.
The Foreword is by Eric Raymond, who says "You have in your
hands a book I've been waiting to read for years...". Steve
Bourne, creator of the Bourne Shell says of it "A comprehensive
guide to system security -- covers everything from hardening
a system to system recovery after an attack."
For more information about the book including reviews of
it, see the
book's official web page.
Order your copy today from Amazon or Barnes
and Noble or see it in your online bookseller or any
Borders bookstore.
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