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mike_55639
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Jul 21, 2008

Hardening

Are there any documents available on system hardening for the bigip? Does anyone have any experience in this area?     Thanks in advance.     -m
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JRahm
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Jul 21, 2008
I'd start with a Red Hat hardening guide:

 

 

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/docs/PDF/Securing-Optimizing-Linux-RH-Edition-1_3.pdf Click here

 

 

If the system has a few layers of protection in front of it, I'd recommend against tweaking in this way, as most changes will not survive a hotfix or an upgrade.