[TriLUG] Book recommndation for newbie

[Fred Stutzman]

> +  Real World Linux Security: Intrusion Prevention, Detection and Recovery
> (Toxen, Prentice-Hall PTR, ISBN 0-13-028187-5) is another excellent guide to
> tricks and tools for Linux security, including a lot of interesting anecdotes
> by the author about how he and his friends hacked early versions of Unix while
> students at Berkeley and stayed hidden from the admins there for weeks on end.
> Good stuff.

Agreed.  This book serves as a checklist for securing your systems, with
Toxen narrating to a decent depth.  Think of this as a guidebook to linux
security best practices.  The anecdotes are smart, and the fluff factor is
kept *pretty* minimal.  I'd reccomend as well.