The authors of Hack Proofing Sun Solaris 8 teach you how to run Solaris with flair. Most of the advice here has to do with the Solaris box as a Web server, mail server, and firewall. Many writers advice 'will be familiar to readers who are doing security work before - their advice to disable all unnecessary services, for example, fall into this category. Other information, such as specialized syntax safety Solaris original utilities and third-party program designed to Solaris, very useful. This will prove especially good for people coming to Solaris from security administration on other operating systems. Not many earth shaking revelations in this book, but contains good documentation of Solaris security tools and procedures. Native Solaris tools (such as audit logs) are documented, as an external tool such as Snort.