I thought that Bastille is dead and wanted to confirm that. Still, are there any alternatives worth mentioning? I do not look for a 'magic script' but for a tool which could ease at least partially the securing process. Of course as always puppet or similar tool can be used and I think that I will go in that direction. Monitoring/selinux/firewalling are standard things and I am using them. I already gathered some resources, I am mostly using info from http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/OS_Protection https://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/os/redhat/rhel5-guide-i731.pdf and checking Nessus currently ;) It looks very promising... BR, Rafal On 18 October 2014 17:45, Rafał Radecki <radecki.rafal at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi All:) > > > > I would like to start using a tool for automating of os hardening. I > found > > some informations about Bastille. One things which attracted my attention > > is that in http://bastille-linux.sourceforge.net/news_updates.htm the > last > > post is from January 29th, 2012 :D > > > > Why would you be excited by a message saying "we're starting back up" from > 3 years ago with no further information ... > > To my knowledge this is completely dead and out of scope for C6/C7 > security. > > > > > > Is the tool ready to use at the moment with CentOS 6/7? Are there any > > alternatives which you can recommend? > > > > > It's a dead project - forget it. > > If you want to think about security you should be looking at the RHEL > security guides to start with: > > > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/Security_Guide/index.html > > > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html-single/Security_Guide/index.html > > After reading through the upstream documentation you may want to read some > external sources such as the CIS guidelines: > > http://benchmarks.cisecurity.org/downloads/show-single/?file=rhel6.120 > > http://benchmarks.cisecurity.org/downloads/show-single/?file=rhel7.100 > > Always keep in mind though security is a process - there's not a magic > script that makes a system secure but rather a properly layered system of > protection and review. > > Don't go into securing an OS thinking there you can run one > application/script and check the box marked secure as a result. Apply > critical thinking to each setting, set up your firewall properly, don't > disable selinux and monitor properly (along with backups) as your keystones > to work from. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >