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Firewalls & Bastion Hosts
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• Unix
  • Armoring Linux Preparing your linux box for the Internet
    
  • Securing Your Linux Box
    
  • FreeBSD Hardening Project
    
  • Hardening RedHat Linux with Bastille
    
  • Armoring Solaris Preparing solaris for a firewall
    
  • Hardening Solaris with Yassp
    
  • CERT : Installing and securing Solaris 2.6 servers
    
  • CERT : UNIX Configuration Guidelines
    
  • Building a Bastion Host Using HP-UX 11
    
  • First Ten Steps to Securing a UNIX Host
    
• Windows
  • Armoring NT Preparing NT for a firewall
    
  • Baseline Security Analyzer Microsoft
    
  • Building an NT bastion host in practice
    
  • Checklist : Windows 2000 Security LabMice
    
  • Checklist : Windows 2000 Security Microsoft
    
  • Checklist : Windows XP Security Microsoft
    
  • IPSec in Windows 2000 and XP
    
  • Locking down NT host for Intrusion Detection
    
  • Microsoft Security Checklists
    
  • NT, Administrator's Workstation, Protecting Hardening
    
  • NT Security Burton Group
    
  • NT Security Guidelines, Trusted Systems' Windows
    
  • NT Security Steps
    
  • NT Security Graded Security Configuration Document
    
  • Hardening Windows 2000 pdf
    
  • Hardening Windows 2000, Part One: Seeing the Forest In Spite of the Trees
    
  • Hardening Windows 2000, Part Two: Seeing the Forest In Spite of the Trees
    
  • Hardening Windows 2000, Part Three: Seeing the Forest In Spite of the Trees
    
  • IIS 5.0 and Windows 2000 Hardening Guide
    
  • NSA Windows 2000 Security Guidelines
    
  • Securing Windows 2000 Sans
    
  • Securing Windows 2000 Server : Microsoft Solution
    
• Local Area Network Security Guidelines
  
• NIST's Information Technology Laboratory Security Bulletins