Jay Beale is the lead developer of the Bastille Linux Project, which creates a hardening program for Linux. He also wrote the Center for Internet Security's system auditing tool for Solaris, Linux and HP-UX and the security benchmark document for Linux. Jay is the author of the upcoming book Locking Down Linux the Bastille Way, to be published by Addison-Wesley.
With all of this talk about firewalls, many people are asking "what are the
advantages of Linux firewalls over firewalls running on Windows?" In this
article, I hope to address this question from several different angles.
First, is Linux more secure than Windows as a firewall platform? Second, what
problems do Linux firewalls manage to avoid which plague Windows firewalls?
Third, why do organizations use Windows firewalls at all? On the way, I'll
introduce Bastille Linux, a popular security project that includes a fairly
powerful free firewall.
The most obvious reason that you should put your firewall on a Linux or Unix
platform is that the alternative, Windows, has shown itself to be rather
insecure. MicroSoft doesn't appear to care one bit about security, as
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Jay Beale is the lead developer of the Bastille Linux Project, which creates a hardening program for Linux. He also wrote the Center for Internet Security's system auditing tool for Solaris, Linux and HP-UX and the security benchmark document for Linux. Jay is the author of the upcoming book Locking Down Linux the Bastille Way, to be published by Addison-Wesley.
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