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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. MS Supports HD-DVD over Blue-Ray by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ok, completely off topic. Maybe somebody will post this. I think slashdotters would be interested. Its a big deal. No really it is lol.

    http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/Ap r0 5/04-18WBMSDVDTitlesPR.asp

  2. Call me crazy by scenestar · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WHith the us gov agencies and large corporations such as IBM swithcing to OS software im getting the idea that propietary softweare has no future.

    Once again this calls for an over haul of the current OS license system and perhaps a new look at the current OS busines model.

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  3. mmmmm....lunchtime reading... by nachtzeit · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    second post =D

  4. Re:Damn straight it's not UNIX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow...was that supposed to make any sense, or have you just been hitting the crack pipe too hard lately?

  5. Windows Security, would you rephrase the question? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does anyone see the connection between:
    * Windows Security
    * Military Intelligence
    * Faith Sciences
    * Microsoft Works
    * Jumbo shrimp
    * Guest host
    * First-strike defense
    * Department of Interior (responsible for everything outside ..???...)
    * Pretty ugly
    * Recently new
    * Good grief
    * Clean hack
    * Violent Agreement
    * This page intentionally left blank
    * "Thank God I'm an Atheist"
    * New classic
    * Terribly pleased
    * Sweet sorrow
    * Small crowd
    * Synthetic natural gas
    * Genuine imitation
    * Airline Food
    * Terribly Good
    * Terrific Head Ache
    * Alone together
    * Living dead
    * Paid volunteer.
    * Original copy.
    * Long shorts
    * Talkative mime
    * Tactical mass destruction
    * Friendly fire (as in firearms)
    * Democratic dictatorship
    * Real fake
    * Old news

  6. Re:Call me a bluff traditionalist... by ryanjensen · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The Rock.

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