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. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell