Tripwire

Hardening Solaris Systems in Production When you’re running enterprise workloads on Solaris — databases, application servers, web fronts — the gap between “it works” and “it’s secure” 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. The scope covered four server types: database, web, application, and utility. Every one of them got the same four security layers, regardless of role. ...