Apple's guides on securing Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

   Apple Computer has recently released two guides for securing
Macintoshes running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger from attack:

   "Mac OS X Security Configuration Guide"
   and
   "Mac OS X Server Security Configuration Guide"
   http://www.apple.com/server/documentation/
   (under the "Mac OS X Security Guides" subhead on that page)

FYI,

Aron Roberts
Information Services and Technology

P.S. Some other Macintosh security guides worth noting:

Stephen de Vries' white papers for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.3
Panther at Corsaire's website include some security configuration
techniques not discussed in Apple's guides, particularly those
related to OS X's Unix underpinnings:

   Stephen de Vries
   "Securing Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger"
   and
   "Securing Mac OS X 10.3 Panther"
   http://www.corsaire.com/white-papers/

   The Systems and Network Attack Center of the National Security
Agency (yes, *that* NSA) offers a guide paralleling much of the
material in Apple's guide, as well as covering some Unix-related
configuration techniques, for Mac OS X 10.3 Panther:

   "Apple Mac OS X v10.3.x "Panther" Security Configuration Guide"
   http://www.nsa.gov/snac/downloads_macX.cfm

   There is also a local Mac OS X security guide, from our neighbors
up the hill at LBL:

   Gene Schultz, et al.
   "Mac OS X Security Checklists"
   http://www.lbl.gov/ITSD/Security/systems/mac_guidelines.html

   These LBL guides were written for Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar, although
they have some applicability to later versions of Mac OS X.

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Received on Wed Sep 6 13:42:16 2006