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Bastille Adds Reporting, Grabs Fed Attention

Posted by timothy on from the soon-comes-the-boiling-oil dept.

johnny.ihackstuff.com writes "NewsForge interviews the Bastille project lead Jay Beale about Bastille's cool new assessment feature, which reports and scores Linux security and -- as always -- makes Linux lockdown super-easy. Available for many distros and Mac OS X, too. Best of all, it's free and open source!" As Jay points out in the interview, the work was "sponsored by the U.S. government's Technical Support Working Group." An anonymous reader summarizes the new capability: "In essence, Bastille now does two things. In one mode, it locks down an operating system, tweaking the configuration for increased security, asking you about each step and teaching you along the way. In the new Assessment mode, it reports on what hardening steps have been taken and what could be taken."

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  1. Call me a bluff traditionalist... by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... but if I were starting a Linux security project, I'd name it after a prison which was difficult to escape from, rather than one famous for being stormed by about 1,000 upset Frenchmen.

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    1. Re:Call me a bluff traditionalist... by Qzukk · · Score: 4, Funny

      rather than one famous for being stormed by about 1,000 upset Frenchmen.

      Good thing I don't need to keep 1000 upset Frenchmen out of my server ;)

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    2. Re:Call me a bluff traditionalist... by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny
      Bastille is a French word meaning "castle" or "stronghold"
      And "C'était une plaisanterie, vous clod d'humeur-moins" is a French phrase meaning "It was a joke, you humourless clod."
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  2. Well... by JavaMoose · · Score: 4, Funny
    I downloaded this, but I can't get it to run.

    Anyone else haveing problems getting this to run on Windows XP?

  3. Needs to be point and click. by Guano_Jim · · Score: 4, Funny

    The download instructions for OSX were a little intimidating, even for someone like me with basic Unix skills...

    Once Bastille for OSX becomes completely point and click it will take off like Jean Valjean after stealing a loaf of bread.

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  4. Re:Scoring systems by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny
    People are by nature competative and will strive to improve a "score" even if it doesn't necessarily help them in any way
    You're talking rubbish. Now, excuse me, I've got to go and whore some more Karma.
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