Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-12-14 Severity: wishlist Package name : titan Version : 4.0 (beta 6) Upstream Author : Brad M. Powell, Dan Farmer, and Matthew Archibald URL : http://www.fish.com/titan License : based on Artistic License (asked in debian-legal and ok) Description : Security hardening and audit modular tool
From the HTML pages: Titan is a collection of programs, each of which either fixes or tightens one or more potential security problems with a particular aspect in the setup or configuration of a Unix system. Conceived and created by Brad Powell, it was written in Bourne shell, and its simple modular design makes it trivial for anyone who can write a shell script or program to add to it, as well completely understand the internal workings of the system. Titan does not replace other security tools, but when used in combination with them it can help make the transformation of a new, out of the box system into a firewall or security conscious system into a significantly easier task. In a nutshell, it attempts to help improve the security of the system it runs on. (...) Titan can help with all of these problems; its main design goals are: * After being run, the system should be more secure than when we started. Things may be broken, but it should be more secure! The truth is that most things you do to secure a system are probably not going to cause a problem. A vendor can't take that chance - but we can. In any case, we haven't run into anything that Titan has broken, but it certainly could happen. (...) * Producing a consistent and understandably secure system. (...) Titan has recently (?) changed from a non-free license to use the Artistic License. I considered packaging Titan at the time but dismissed it due to its license. I will package it now. Titan is a mixture of what Bastille and Tiger provide currently for Debian. On one hand it can automatically secure a system (however, it's less "verbose" that Bastille) on the other, it can check if the system is secure (like Tiger does). Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Peña
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