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From: Tim Erlin <tperlin@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: security and preventive measures
To: Mike Dewhirst <Dewhirst.M@UCLES.org.uk>,
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What are you trying to protect? A single box acting as
a gateway on your home DSL link, or multiple subnets
in a 100Mbps or greater LAN environment?

-Tim

--- Mike Dewhirst <Dewhirst.M@UCLES.org.uk> wrote:
> what good standard security tools are there out
> there that a security
> concious admin should install?
> 
> I've heard of trip wire, but if I understand
> correctly, you need physical
> access to the box to have the database off-line?
> 
> I'm mostly after break-in detection, comporomisation
> (like sshd, etc.)
> detection..
> 
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
> 
> 
> 
> @
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