On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > Bah the STIGS are wonderful things... they make my heart sing. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"