The company security policy now requires very detailed auditing of all actions. This includes capturing all executed commands together with their arguments and the environment variables. After activating auditing on all Solaris 10 systems, the security auditor complains about having to check the audit trail on each individual host.
He asks for a central place to capture all audit trails. Using standard Solaris 10 security features, which is a solution to this problem?
A security administrator is required to validate the integrity of a set of operating system files on a number of Solaris systems. The administrator decides to use the Solaris Fingerprint Database to validate configuration and data files as well as binaries and libraries. What command, available by default in Solaris 10, will help the security administrator collect the necessary information that will be used with the Solaris Fingerprint Database?
You are configuring a new system to be used as an intranet web server. After you have installed the minimal amount of packages and patched the system, you added the appropriate web server packages (SUNWapch2r and SUNWapch2u). By default, the web server daemon will be started using UID webservd and the basic privilege set. To comply with the company's policy of least privilege, you need to minimize the privileges that the web server will have. What will you modify to specify the privileges that the web service will run with?
One of the operators of the mainframe group was moved to the UNIX group and tasked to activate and configure password history. For every user, the last 10 passwords should be remembered in the history. In what file is the size of the password history configured?
The /etc/default/passwd file contains a number of configuration parameters that can be used to constrain the character composition of user passwords. What is one of the dangers of having password composition too tightly constrained?
To harden a newly installed Solaris OS, an administrator is required to make sure that syslogd is configured to NOT accept messages from the network. Which supported method can be used to configure syslogd like this?
You have been asked to implement defense in depth for network access to a system, where a web server will be running on an Internet-facing network interface.
Which is NOT contributing to the defense in depth?
A new security related patch has been released for the Solaris OS. This patch needs to be applied to the system that functions as your web server. The web server is configured to run in a nonglobal zone. Can you just use patchadd to apply the patch to the global zone to update the web server zone?
You decided it was worth maintaining an extremely paranoid policy when configuring your firewall rules. Therefore, you had your management approve the implementation of a security policy stance to deny all inbound connection requests to your corporate network. How is it possible that you still suffer from remote exploits that your adversaries are using to obtain interactive sessions inside your firewall?