Part II General System Security and Service Protection Methods #

In Part I, “Common Criteria” we mentioned the Common Criteria EAL 4+ certified installation and setup that was sponsored by IBM for a select subset of hardware. This certified build is a great first step for customers wanting to build a secure and hardened base system, yet might not address all of t…

This portion of the guide will only give basic recommendations instead of strict rules. The procedures and examples here should give you the ability to apply security enhancement techniques to a wider variety of server-based services and programs.