Re: Securing networks
Hello Bret,
What threats are you trying to protect against? That decides what you
need to take care of.
Not quite sure - hackers and the like?
My point is that, like in the Window$ world, simply saying "put on a
firewall, and an anti-virus program and you're done. And keep it up to
date" doesn't really address the issue.
My thinking exactly.
I recommend you buy a book about securing GNU/Linux systems, and use
that to guide your understanding and choices. Currently I'm using Real
World Linux Security. I'm just getting started.
Is it possible for you to recommend a book?
SSH seems to be able to handle this. I haven't seen anyone speak
against it, except for the possibility of performance issues if one
tries to cram too much over the pipe. That would be a problem with just
a network connection anyway, so you'd have to design for that anyway.
Yeah I use SSH internally, but I'm not quite sure how SSH works
externally via NAT? After all, I can't quite type "ssh -l piers
192.168.0.1".
Thanks very much for your help :)
Cheers - Piers
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