https://www.shafiq.in/tags/rsa/ Recent content in RSA on Shafiq Alibhai Hugo en-GB 2009-2026 All rights reserved. Sat, 01 Dec 2012 16:27:52 +0000 https://www.shafiq.in/blog/hardening-solaris-systems-in-production/ Sat, 01 Dec 2012 16:27:52 +0000 https://www.shafiq.in/blog/hardening-solaris-systems-in-production/ <h1 id="hardening-solaris-systems-in-production">Hardening Solaris Systems in Production</h1> <p>When you&rsquo;re running enterprise workloads on Solaris — databases, application servers, web fronts — the gap between &ldquo;it works&rdquo; and &ldquo;it&rsquo;s secure&rdquo; is a lot wider than most people expect. I spent a good chunk of time working through hardening procedures for a fleet of Solaris boxes, and what follows is the procedure we landed on.</p> <p>The scope covered four server types: database, web, application, and utility. Every one of them got the same four security layers, regardless of role.</p>