Internet Security Standards

Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, 2002 @06:30AM from the sorely-needed dept.

Aetius writes "The Center for Internet Security has released a set of security standards and tools for several operating systems. Here's the ZDNet story. I checked out the Linux standard and it is a pretty good coverage of the basics; about the only thing missing was a simple firewall treatment. I installed it on my wide-open desktop system (RH 7.3) and scored a 6.61 out of 10, which doesn't seem too bad. The scanner code isn't open source, but it's perl so you can at least look at it. You have to register to download it. If nothing else, the PDF of the standards is a good read. Enjoy."

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Don't waste your time unless you run rh or mdk by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-28 06:54 · Score: 5, Informative

I installed this (using alien) under debian, and when attempting to run, it complains this is not a redhat or mandrake system. The uninstall then proceeds to attempt to remove /usr/local. Very nice work.

Despite the fact they say this is for "linux," it is not nearly that generic.