Bastille Linux update: Hardening the OS with help from Uncle Sam (NewsForge)

[Posted April 19, 2005 by ris]

NewsForge has an interview with Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale. "NF: You mentioned recently that Bastille Linux has been under major development -- please talk a little bit about what is happening. Beale: Until today, Bastille could only harden or "lock down" systems. It did this by deactivating unnecessary operating system components and better configuring the ones that remained. It took proactive steps to make a system harder to compromise, reducing the probability that the next item in the attacker's toolkit will be successful against your system. We've just finished adding reporting functionality to Bastille, so that it can tell you what parts of the system aren't locked down."

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Posted Apr 19, 2005 20:13 UTC (Tue) by huffd (guest, #10382) [Link]

Just a warning for the beginner. Don't try to trap everything your first time around you might shut yourself off from the outside world. But there is an undo facility on their site(RevertBastille).
http://www.bastille-linux.org/undo.html