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Re: Information required about Bastille-linux

Subject: Re: Information required about Bastille-linux
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:02:26 -0400
On Jun 13, 2007, john lokka wrote:

Hopefully, this will answer most of your questions

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Subject: Information required about Bastille-linux

1) I need to know advantages and disadvatages of Bastille-linux
Advantages - locks down red hat and mandrake linux platforms
                 - created via scripts (don't remember which language)
                 - easily modifible
                 - has a verification function (compare and contrast
between the "stored" baseline and the actual implementation

Disadvantages - none really.

2) how sound Bastille-linux is in terms of intrusion detection. Is
there any criteria through which we can compare or measure its
soundness.
Bastille does not monitor for intrusion detection. Bastille is a
lockdown (permissions, open ports) script

While it's true that the focus of Bastille is not intrusion
detection, it does have the ability to configure psad:

http://www.cipherdyne.org/psad/

This allows attacks to be detected via an iptables policy that is
configured in a default log-and-drop stance.

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Michael Rash
http://www.cipherdyne.org/
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