RE: [e-com-sec] e mail viruses

["Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It depends on how Red Hat ships their product. Some distributions lock down
the box "out of the box," others leave security wide open and then let you
lock it down. I know Caldera is locked down "out of the box." I would guess
if IBM distributes it, they will make sure that it is locked down also.


Speaking of Linux on the iSeries, I was at an IBM class last week for the
WDT. They talked about security and a good example for the use of Linux.
Create 5 partitions 2 for Linux, and three OS/400. The layout would look
something like this:

OS400           | Linux         | OS400         | OS400         | Linux
Core programs   | Firewall      | Webservers    | Webservers    | Firewall
Core DB |               | Application   | Application   |
                |               |    Servers    |    Servers    |
                |               | --------- Load Balanced --------------|
NIC to OS400                                                      NIC to
Linux
Internal Network
Internet Connection

Seems like a cool idea. It would eliminate a couple different ways for
hackers to hit the core system since it is all one machine.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Jensen [mailto:brad@elstore.com]
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 2:43 PM
To: midrange-nontech@midrange.com
Subject: Re: [e-com-sec] e mail viruses




"Wills, Mike N. (TC)" wrote:
>
> I was talking about viruses... not hacking. There are few viruses that
> affect the *nix platform. Yes there are many holes that Crackers (NOTE:
> Hackers just find the holes and get them fixed. Crackers exploits the hole
> to do damage.) like to take advantage of, but that wasn't the scope of the
> thread.

As soon as you suggested that people use Linux, it became the
point for me.

I wonder if the same problems exist on the IBM port. I think we
were using Red Hat on the PC.

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