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HP-UX Bastille Overview

»Table of Contents
»Index
»Notices
»Introduction
»Product Overview
»Getting Started
»Discovery and Identification
»Users and Authorizations
»Networking and Security
»Monitoring Systems, Clusters, and Events
»Storage Integration
»Managing with Tasks
»Tools that Extend Management
»Partner Applications
»HP Integrity Essentials Overview
»Event Monitoring Service Overview
HP-UX Bastille Overview
»GlancePlus Overview
»Ignite-UX Overview
»Integrated Lights-Out Overview
»Partition Manager Overview
»Security Patch Check Overview
»HP Serviceguard Manager Overview
»Software Distributor Overview
»Webmin Overview
»Workload Manager Overview
»HP OpenView Storage Data Protector Overview
»HP OpenView Performance Agent Overview
»HP OpenView Storage Area Management Overview
»HP OpenView Storage Management Appliance Overview
»HP OpenView Storage Operations Manager Overview
»Process Resource Manager Overview
»HP ProLiant Essentials Applications
»HP Storage Essentials Overview
»Reporting
»Administering Systems and Events
»Troubleshooting
»Reference Information
»Printable version
»Glossary
»Using Help
» Features and Benefits

HP-UX Bastille is a security hardening/lockdown tool which can be used to enhance the security of the HP-UX operating system. It provides customized lockdown on a system by system basis, addressing a large number of the recommendations from a number of popular security scanning tools and checklists.

Features and Benefits

  • Configures daemons and system settings to be more secure

  • Turns off unneeded services such as pwgrd

  • Helps create chroot jails that partially limit the vulnerability of common Internet services such as Web servers and Domain Name System (DNS)

  • Educates users through its user interface

  • Configures Security Patch Check to run automatically

  • Configures an IPFilter-based firewall

  • The revert feature returns the security configuration to the state before Bastille was run

HP-UX Bastille must be downloaded and installed from the HP website.

Go to http://h20293.www2.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B6849AA for more information and access to documentation.