Initial level of protection ?

[rshea]

Hi - When you first sign up for, say, 'The 96' does the vm have a default firewall installed - I'm concerned about the machine being rooted before I get a chance to protect it.

thanks

Richard.

[matta]

We try to keep our images up to date, but the welcome letter advises customers the first step they should take is run their distributions package updater (ie. yum/apt/emerge).

[richyc]

For a firewall, I'd suggest using APF (an iptables based firewall system) from http://www.rfxnetworks.com/apf.php as it's free and quite simple to use.

You may want to take a peek at http://www.nsonetworks.com as they have the "Easy Linux Security" script which may help with inital security hardening.

[matta]

I've added ELS to our wiki, seems like a useful program.