Cisco Delivers Comprehensive Technology Platform for Government Agencies to Help Protect Citizens, Assets and Employees

 ( 247 days 12 hours ago)

FOSE - WASHINGTON, D.C., - April 1, 2008 - Cisco, Inc. today announced the Cisco® Open Platform for Safety and Security, a technology platform designed to enable government agencies to protect assets, employees and citizens via a secure, intelligent, converged network. Cisco Open Platform for Safety and Security supports the growing needs of defense, civilian, public safety, state and local government agencies to focus on business continuity and force protection mission requirements to ...

Using a Pluggable Authentication Module

 ( 247 days 15 hours ago)

LinuxSecurity.com: If you're concerned about protecting world-writeable shared directories such as /tmp or /var/tmp from abuse, a Linux© Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) can help you. The pam_namespace module creates a separate namespace for users on your system when they login. This separation is enforced by the Linux operating system so that users are protected from several types of security attacks. This article for Linux system administrators lays out the steps to enable namespaces with PAM. Have you heard about PAM? All Linux user's use PAM every time they use Linux. This article does a great job at explaining how PAM helps improve Linux user's security.

How To Set Up SSH With Public-Key Authentication On Debian Etch

 ( 247 days 21 hours ago)

LinuxSecurity.com: This mini-howto explains how to set up an SSH server on Debian Etch with public-key authorization (and optionally with disabled password logins). SSH is a great tool to control Linux-based computers remotely. It's safe and secure. There's no warranty that it'll work for you. All of these settings are applicable for Debian and -like systems! There may be slightly changes on other systems as well.