NSA's Guide to RHEL5 Security

[Lisa Kachold]

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:44 AM, mike havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> are you saying that the russians hacked into their internet systems?
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 11:57 -0700, Tuna wrote:
>> > Lookie what I found!
>> >
>> > http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/os/redhat/rhel5-guide-i731.pdf
>> >
>> > A 170 page PDF about securely configuring Red Hat, written by and for
>> > the government. If you look around on NSA.gov, you'll find similar
>> > things for OS X, Solaris, and even Windows.
>> >
>> > Cool stuff, I think. Who ever thought of looking to the government for
>> > security tips? :P
>> ----
>> actually the government has a vested interest in helping America's
>> businesses secure their Internet systems. One of the primary weapons in
>> modern day warfare is destroying the ability to communicate and conduct
>> commerce. If you have the slightest doubts about this, do a little
>> research about what happened to the country of Georgia when they battled
>> with the Russians 2 years ago. Before that, there was the issue with
>> Latvia (IIRC) when they removed statues of Russians from their public
>> plazas.
>>
>> Craig
>>
>
Well the NSA and Microsoft have had long agreements.  I believe the NSA has
their own proprietary protocol(s).

But, I agree that this is a VERY general document; it is clearly not
examples of well configured complex systems.

Do they warn you not to install X on a production system and surf via
firefox,  get your junkmail?

I doubt it!  Those types of Layer 8 obnosis come only from experience.

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