October 2022
Intermediate to advanced
500 pages
19h 57m
English
book
Security Strategies in Linux Platforms and Applications, 3rd Edition
by Ric Messier, Michael Jang
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Service Applications
For those who do not have to administer Linux desktop environments, the challenge will be a bit more limited. In this case, all you need to do is monitor the security alerts associated with the applications running on your servers.
The basic pattern for security with respect to open-source service applications is consistent. Just as open-source development proceeds in the public eye, open-source security alerts and updates are publicly available. To that end, this section describes how you can keep up with security issues related to the Apache web server, the Samba file server, and various File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers.
The developers behind most Linux distributions, including Red Hat and Ubuntu, support the installation ...