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Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Speaker:
Edward Hammersla, Chief Operating Officer, Trusted Computer Solutions, Inc.
Operating system security is a priority for system administrators but most agree that it is not easy. According to a Forrester report on hardening Linux systems, twenty-four percent of system administrators are using an ad hoc process to harden servers and thirty percent are manually scripting security policies. Many system administrators still don't have the experience in locking down the machines as it is time consuming and difficult. System hardening can vary from one OS to another. Operating systems are not shipped with secure default configurations because that would make them difficult to install and that means system lock down needs to be done after the installation of the OS.
This presentation will discuss the lock down dilemma and best practices for locking down Linux in a variety of OS environments as well as basic system-hardening techniques administrators can not afford to miss.
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