Hack Proofing Linux : A Guide to Open Source Security

From the authors of the bestselling E-Mail Virus Protection Handbook!

The Linux operating system continues to gain market share based largely on its reputation as being the most secure operating system available. The challenge faced by system administrators installing Linux is that it is secure only if installed and configured properly, constantly and meticulously updated, and carefully integrated with a wide variety of Open Source security tools. The fact that Linux source code is readily available to every hacker means that system administrators must continually learn security and anti-hacker techniques.

Hack Proofing Linux will provide system administrators with all of the techniques necessary to properly configure and maintain Linux systems and counter malicious attacks.

• Linux operating systems and Open Source security tools are incredibly powerful, complex, and notoriously under-documented - this book addresses a real need
• Uses forensics-based analysis to give the reader an insight to the mind of a hacker

James Stanger (Ph.D., MCSE, MCT) directs the Linux, Security, and Server Administrator certification tracks for ProsoftTraining.com. Since receiving his Ph.D. in 1997, he has focused on auditing Internet servers and writing courseware, books, and articles about administering and securing Internet servers.He specializes in troubleshooting firewall, intrusion detection, DNS, e-mail and Web server implementations.

Patrick T. Lane (MCSE, MCP+I, MCT, Network+, i-Net+, CIW) is a Content Architect for ProsoftTraining.com, a leading Internet skills training and curriculum development company. He is the author of more than 20 technical courses and is the director of the CIW Foundations and CIW Internetworking Professional series. While at ProsoftTraining.com, he has helped create the Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW) program and the i-Accelerate program for Intel, Novell, and Microsoft professionals.

Edgar Danielyan (CCNA) is currently self-employed. Edgar has a diploma in company law from the British Institute of Legal Executives, and is a certified paralegal from the University of Southern Colorado. He has been working as a network administrator and manager of a top-level domain of Armenia. He has also worked for the United Nations, the Ministry of Defense, a national telco, a bank, and has been a partner in a law firm.