Web Directory

» AIX 4.3 Network Hardening
   Recipes to secure network services on AIX. Download of scripts available.
   http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/security/howto/2001-01-15/

» Absence of Malice
   Editorial from Dr. Dobb's Journal about Randal Schwartz's felony convictions for running Crack on unauthorized machines.
   http://www.lightlink.com/fors/press/ddj9603.html

» Admin's Choice - Resources for Unix administrators
   Solaris system administration FAQs, articles and tips.
   http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/P_securing_solaris.htm

» Adminschoice - Securing solaris OS
   Details some of the focus areas for security and provides suggestions to make it strong.
   http://adminschoice.com/docs/securing_solaris.htm

» Auditing UNIX Systems: A Case Study
   This report, written as a case study, presents results of a detailed information security audit of UNIX systems that belong to a fictitious company. It illustrates an approach to performing such an examination.
   http://www.zeltser.com/auditing-unix-systems/

» Coping with the Threat of Computer Security Incidents
   A primer from prevention through recovery by Russell L. Brand.
   ftp://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/doc/guidelines/primer.txt

» FreeBSD Handbook Security chapter
   Securing FreeBSD
   http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/securing-freebsd.html

» NIST Computer Security Resource Clearinghouse
   Collects and disseminates computer security information and resources to help users, systems administrators, managers, and security professionals better protect their data and systems.
   http://csrc.ncsl.nist.gov

» Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO
   Online book on software security tips.
   http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/

» Securing Debian HOWTO
   Protecting Debian during installation and securing network services.
   http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/

» TPEP Frequently Asked Questions
   The Computer Security Evaluation Frequently Asked Questions (V2.1)
   http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-security/evaluations/

» Unix Security
   Paper by Rajib K. Mitra about file permissions, daemons, stack overflows and scripts.
   http://www.spy.net/~jeeb/unix.html

» Unix security basics, Part 1
   Understanding file attribute bits and modes
   http://www.itworld.com/swol-1020-unix101

» Writing Safe Setuid Programs
   Collection of papers on writing safe setuid programs by Matt Bishop.
   http://nob.cs.ucdavis.edu/~bishop/secprog/index.html