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Guillaume Castagnino wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> hardening is not only to protect against your known users, but only from |
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> external attackers ! |
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> If you have a flaw in one of your servers that can be remotely |
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> exploited, hardening your box will help you containing the attacker ! |
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> Regards, |
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> Le dimanche 29 octobre 2006 05:16, bridavis@×××××××.net a écrit : |
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>> I have a total of 3 non-root users, 1 is me, the 2 others are trusted |
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>> (i.e. family/friend). RBAC looks like it's more complex that I need |
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>> and want to deal with, and I'm I'm wondering if I should bother with |
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>> this with so few users. |
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>> Thoughts? |
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>> Thanks, |
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>> Brian |
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I replied before with a straight answer. My case is the case of a "kid" |
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(24 old) who likes to play with his computer so he applies |
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hardened&RSBAC now and then, set ups snort and plays with security-wise |
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system configuration (encryption etc) as much as time and will permits. |
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That said, there is no need for someone to set up a box like that just |
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for being "secure". The trade off imho is too much. Remember that for an |
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expert hacker a misconfiguration is enough to take over the system. A |
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hardened system takes time and brainpower to be set up correctly. |
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I see no point to apply orange-book security level on a standard systems |
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by default. |
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Cheers. |
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