Securing & Optimizing Linux: The Hacking Solution

This 3rd edition of the very popular title "Securing & Optimizing Linux" looks for security measures that go beyond firewalls and intrusion detection systems to anticipate and protect against upcoming threats. Securing & Optimizing Linux: The Hacking Solution: A hacker's guide to protect your Linux server designed for system administrators, managers, or Linux users who wish to protect their Linux systems from unauthorized intrusions and other external attacks. This new edition contains many tips and useful information related to security and optimization to help you get complete control of what could happen on your Linux server and network.

The book provides through its 47 chapters, a comprehensive collection of Linux security products and explains in the most simple and structured manner how to safely and easily configure and run many popular Linux-based applications and services, including Exim, Qmail, Apache 2, DHCP, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, Anti-Relaying, ProFTPD, and many others. The author of the book relentlessy searches and document new hacking solutions to bring you in this manual the most up-to-date security developments.

Gerhard Mourani was born on August 26, 1970 at Abidjan, Ivory Cost. He did his undergraduate studies at Versailles, France, completing his Baccalaureate in 1990. In 1993 he received a Bachelor's degree in Social Science from Montreal, Canada.

Until 1995, Mr. Mourani was involved in Linux Research & Development at all levels. He published many books and review about Linux security and administration over the Internet.

He successfully made consulting services for IT companies in the Montreal region. Mr. Mourani was successively member of the Linux Documentation Project (LDP). He subsequently became a leader or member of various Linux projects over the Internet.

On April 1, 2000, Mr. Mourani formed Open Network Architecture Inc, where since May 1, 2001, he is Vice President and Operation & Development Manager.