From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Kelly Subject: Re: security training suggestions Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 22:23:13 +0000 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040224222313.253ca77e.bilbo@waitrose.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:54:29 -0500 "William Stanard" wrote: > We are about to add our Linux box to our school's intranet (a 10.x.x.x > network); our network manager is afraid that, by adding a Linux box, we > will be opening ourselves up to mischief from our (my) students. Does > anyone know of any security training offerings in the southeastern US that > I and my network manager could attend to bring us up to speed on security > issues surrounding Linux. > > I am running Red Hat 8.0 (2.4.18-14) and plan to use Apache's httpd to > serve pages for the teachers and students within the school's intranet. I > will be teaching Linux to about ten students next fall. > > Bill Stanard I don't know it this helps but O'Reilly publish a book, "Building Secure Servers with Linux". The isbn is 0-596-00217-3. My edition dates from 2002 and I found it useful. Of course I would also recommend that you learn as much as possible about Linux and networking in general. Security is not a stand-alone issue. Just my $0.02 worth. regards, John Kelly - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs