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Men in Black Security Guides

by Blane Warrene

Where might one go for advanced security techniques? Regardless of where on the planet you may be - if you think about it for a while the United States Government’s National Security Agency will pop up on that list somewhere.

These are the folks who brought us the excellent Security Enhanced Linux — a promising construction of the Linux kernel for ‘hardened’ protection and administration.

I was pointed to a new security configuration guide released on October 15th for tweaking OS X (Panther) — showing deeper penetration by Apple beyond the research tiers in the public sector, where they have a stronghold, into more mainstream usage areas.

While there I discovered an entire library of documents covering new and legacy platforms and applications relevant to the web professional, including:

  • A brief on network security, and router guidelines
  • Java plug-in security
  • IIS 5.0 recommendations
  • Techniques for securing Microsoft SQL and Oracle database servers
  • Client and server configuration guides for Exchange Server 2000 and Outlook
  • and much more — free for the taking..

The NSA’s site has great depth and is fairly easy to maneuver — there are some interesting research projects and outreach programs to academia, businesses and within the government.

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This post has 5 responses so far

  1. Nice post Blane. It’s very great to learn all those security tips for Mac OS X since I’m using it since some months but I didn’t take the time to learn all those elements. It could be great if you continue to post information for Mac OS X platform.

    Keep uo the good work :)
    nblavoie.com

     
  2. Thanks for the kind words. You will find a lot of Mac material mixed into my columns and blog posts as I use it both as a Mac and as an open source platform for work and play. Thanks again!

     
  3. Hey, the NSA’s site is down! Weird…

     
  4. Scratch that, it’s back! Or maybe it was just the dial-up connection I was using yesterday? :-/

     
  5. Immensely useful link - added to my bookmarks :) Thanks Blane.

     

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