This important new title is about mastering the principles of reliable system and network security. Building Secure Servers with Linux carefully outlines the security risks, defines precautions that can minimize those risks, and offers some recipes (using 100% open source ingredients) for robust security. Author Mick Bauer focuses on the most common use of Linux-as a hub offering services to an organization or the larger Internet. The book does not cover firewalls, but addresses the customary practice in which an organization will protect its hub using other systems as firewalls-systems that are often proprietary.