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Security Defenses to Fortify your Linux Systems

How to Fortify your Linux Systems Create a Linux security fortress; implementing security defenses using towers, bridges, and guards. Still many companies have difficulties implementing basic security measures. Even after years of websites being defaced, and customer records stolen, the same mistakes are made over and over again. While this all might sound like an unsolvable situation, information security is getting attention from more people. If you are responsible for the system management of Linux systems, ignoring security is no […]

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Accounting, Auditing, Kernel Integrity, System Integrity Leave a comment

Linux System Integrity Explained: Ensure Data, Logging and Kernel Integrity

Linux System Integrity Explained From Data and Logging, up to Kernel Integrity Systems exist for one primary goal, which is processing data. Information security helps protecting this valuable data, by ensuring its availability, integrity, and confidentiality. In other words, data should be available when we need it. Then it should be properly transmitted and stored, without errors. Our last goal ensures that it is only available to those with a need to know. Many open source software components are available […]

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Auditing, Intrusion Detection, Linux

Monitoring Linux File access, Changes and Data Modifications

Monitoring File access, Changes and Data Modifications   Linux has several solutions to monitor what happens with your data. From changing contents to who accessed particular information, and at what time. For our auditing toolkit Lynis, we researched and tested several solutions over the last few years. In this article we have a look at these solutions to monitor file access, changes and modifications to the data and beyond. What is Data? Data is a collection of bits, ordered in […]

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