[CentOS] Hardening

[Jim Perrin]

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle
> <mailinglists at mailnewsrss.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> What tips does everyone have on hardening a CenOS Server that is
>> running web, e-mail, ssh, ftp, mysql, coldfusion and will be
>> processing payments from www?
>
> NSA hardening guidelines would be a good start. The CIS hardening
> guidelines would be also good. After that you want to look at specific
> hardening guidelines for apache

The NSA guide is a very good start, and
http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/files/hardening-rhel5.pdf compliments
it rather well.
You might also want to have a look at the DoD STIG guidelines, though
reading them will make your eyes bleed.




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