EnGarde Secure Linux: Why not give it a try?
EnGarde Secure Linux is a Linux server distribution that is geared toward providing a open source platform that is highly secure by default as well as easy to administer. EnGarde Secure Linux includes a select group of open source packages configured to provide maximum security for tasks such as serving dynamic websites, high availability mail transport, network intrusion detection, and more. The Community edition of EnGarde Secure Linux is completely free and open source, and online security and application updates are also freely available with GDSN registration.
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EnGarde Secure Linux v3.0.6 Now Available - Guardian Digital is happy to announce the release of EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.6 (Version 3.0, Release 6). This release includes several bug fixes and feature enhancements to the Guardian Digital WebTool and the SELinux policy, several updated packages, and a couple of new packages available for installation.
pgp Key Signing Observations: Overlooked Social and Technical Considerations - While there are several sources of technical information on using pgp in general, and key signing in particular, this article emphasizes social aspects of key signing that are too often ignored, misleading or incorrect in the technical literature. There are also technical issues pointed out where I believe other documentation to be lacking. It is important to acknowledge and address social aspects in a system such as pgp, because the weakest link in the system is the human that is using it. The algorithms, protocols and applications used as part of a pgp system are relatively difficult to compromise or 'break', but the human user can often be easily fooled. Since the human is the weak link in this chain, attention must be paid to actions and decisions of that human; users must be aware of the pitfalls and know how to avoid them.
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| CSO Counsels Restraint | ||
3rd, May, 2006
Encrypting every piece of data at rest within an organization could be expensive overkill. According to Al Kirkpatrick, chief security officer at information services firm First American Corp., many users may not need as much encryption as some industry sources are advocating. Kirkpatrick, whose firm provides services such as document processing to the real estate industry, explained that he is responsible for "billions of records stored on terabytes of data," during his Interop keynote Tuesday. According to the exec, this includes the world's largest Microsoft SQL Server database. |
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| Cryptography Rides to the Notaries' Rescue | ||
4th, May, 2006
To those who grew up in the electronic age, notarization of documents has the odor of antiquity and obsolescence. It is an ancient practice, but ironically it serves purposes directly analogous to many of high priority for modern electronic documents. And now modern security techniques are bringing notarization to the electronic realm, to the benefit of both. Think of notaries as an old-world authentication and accreditation system. |
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| Slaying Security Dragons | ||
2nd, May, 2006
Passwords: Are we really continuing to use passwords alone, in 2006? There are other options like hardware crypto tokens. Some say they’re too costly. We create, distribute, and reset passwords just to see them lost, forgotten, or compromised. There's a lot of denial about the scope of password-related security problems. |
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| The Best Person To Hack Your System Is You | ||
2nd, May, 2006
I’ve always been a firm believer in the idea of hacking yourself. After all, if you don’t hack yourself, the hackers will. So, if you’re a good security administrator, you must learn about the various hacking tools that might be used against your environment, become familiar with them, and use them. The Metasploit Framework is one of those tools. Created and maintained by four full-time analysts and additional part-time contributors, Metasploit is “click-click-click†| ||
