Best Practices

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SANS Security Papers

Keep up to date on security

1. Turn off ports that are not needed

2. Sendmail notes

3. Tcp_wrapper

4. PGP – Pretty Good Privacy

5. Physical Security

6. Firewalls

7. Linux Systems

8. Sun OS

9. The web

10. Setuid programs

11. The tcpdump program

12. CERT & Hacker Boards

13. Vendor Patches

14. Ssh (Secure Shell)

15. Monitor and probe tools

16. Kerberos

17. The Andrew File System – (AFS)

18. Monitor logs

19. Xhosts command

20. The “r” commands

21. User Management

22. Limit SU users and SUDO

23. Installation Practices

24. Virus, worms and the Trojan Horse

25. Filesystem security

26. Passwords

27. Complete rtf document