Bledsoe, Howard W CIV CNRNW, N632WI wrote: > All: > > Many thanks to Joey Prestia, Mark Roth, and Ben Kevan and for > the helpful advice on how to update the kernel for my RHEL 5 systems. > FYI, the update was completed without incident by: <snip> > The question of why is a valid one. As part of a defense in > depth strategy, we are required to keep up with all vendor security > patches. While nothing is completely hacker proof, we need to make > things as difficult as possible for the bad guys. This principle is > applied even for those devices which are not connected to the Internet. You've very welcome. One thing, though: is the system itself hardened? If not, you should consider it, and for that, my best recommendation is Bastille Linux, which is a hardening set of scripts, which I was just informed (during an interview!) was mentioned and suggested by NIST. mark -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
