Re: Looking for papers on protecting servers

["Mitchell Rowton" <mrowton () bdo com>]

Good post!

The options you have mentioned so far are a perimeter firewall
http://www.securitydocs.com/Firewall

Host based firewall
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22host+based+firewall%22

Host and Network based IDS
http://www.securitydocs.com/Intrusion_Detection/Snort
http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/network-intrusion-detection.html
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22host+based+IDS%22

Security agent..  we've already covered host based firewalls and IDS's,
so maybe something like tripwire?  Or something on a different host like
a honeypot?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tripwire/
http://www.securitydocs.com/Intrusion_Detection/Honeypots

This may not apply to your paper, but generally you would want to
figure out how critical the server is and assess it for current
vulnerabilities.

These are all good, just don't forget the basics (here are a few in no
particular order)

Policy, anti-virus, patches, passwords, incident response procedures,
physical security...

--
Mitchell

> > > Lazlò Carreidas) <LazloCarreidas () netscape net> 04/07/04 06:57AM
My fellow experts,

I have been requested to write a document that would describe the
different means to "protect" a specific server in a datacentre (except
for the continuous patching process, of course...)

There are several possibilities (individual or combined):
  - firewall as a "datacentre door"
  - firewall (kind of "personal") over the server
  - good HIDS and NIDS
  - some kind of "security agent" that would raise an alert when
needed
  - etc...

I am looking for opinions, papers, etc... that could help me writing
this document.

Thank you for your help

  Lazlò


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