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Date:  Sun, 04 Mar 2007 15:17:22 +0200
From:  Arthur Sherman <arturs (at mark) netvision.net.il>
Subject:  [coba-e:08985] Web security
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <025501c75e5f$71ab6330$0dfb1bac@lapxp>
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Howdy,

I has always been anal about security...
:0

Just came across several good rulesets for securing web server with
mod_security plugin for apache:

1) http://www.gotroot.com/tiki-index.php?page=mod_security+rules

2) http://www.linuxtechs.net/mod_security

...which triggered some of my previous thoughts:

There has always been a certain lack of out-of-the-box toolset aiming at
Hosting Server overall protection.
Which we overcome partially by hacking configs and adding security
awareness, such as anti-DoS in sendmail.mc, installing 3rd party firewalls
etc.

Most of these hacks are done individually, i.e. every each of us does it
him/herself for his/her servers.

We could bring this topic here as a common task to build security templates
for BQ, for every app that could be tuned this way.
Then devs could revise them and submit to repo and distro, as a default.
3rd party firewalls added, this could make BQ one of most secure Hosting
platforms, which is a big deal.

Please your opinions!




Best,

--
Arthur Sherman

+972-52-4878851
http://www.cpt.co.il/